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Flora Ponjou Tasse

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CTO at Selerio

Seattle, Washington, United States

FoundedSelerio

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About

Flora Ponjou Tasse is a Principal ML Engineer at NVIDIA, where she works on multimodal AI and 3D perception for applications including robotics, AR/VR, and content creation. She co-founded Selerio and holds a PhD focused on 3D shape retrieval using query types such as 3D models, images, sketches, and range scans. Her earlier work covered areas including crowd simulations, sketch-based terrain modelling, curve-based shading, and the analysis of 3D point sets.

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Co-founders at Selerio

GFGhislain Fouodji Tasse
Ghislain Fouodji TasseCEO

Experience

  1. NVIDIAPrincipal ML Engineercurrent2024 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
  2. CruiseApplied Scientist (ML)2022 — 2024Seattle, Washington, United States
  3. Streem, Inc.Head of CV/AI Research2019 — 2022
  4. SelerioCo-founder & CTO2016 — 2019London, United Kingdom
  5. MicrosoftResearch Intern2016Cambridge, United Kingdom
  6. University of CambridgeResearch supervisor2014 — 2016Cambridge, United Kingdom
  7. GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern2014Zürich Area, Switzerland
  8. InriaReseach intern2013Grenoble Area, France
  9. afrozaariOS Developer2011 — 2012Cape Town, South Africa
  10. University of Cape TownTeaching Assistant2009 — 2010

Skills & more

Computer Graphics6Image Processing6Computer Science19Programming18Software Development4Algorithms6iOS development1CUDAWeb Development3Python3C++10C7
+3 moreLinuxUnixDatabases

Languages English · French · Ngiemboo

  • Web Development — Udacity

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Who is Flora Ponjou Tasse?
Flora Ponjou Tasse is a Principal ML Engineer at NVIDIA, where she works on multimodal AI and 3D perception for applications including robotics, AR/VR, and content creation. She co-founded Selerio and holds a PhD focused on 3D shape retrieval using query types such as 3D models, images, sketches, and range scans. Her earlier work covered areas including crowd simulations, sketch-based terrain modelling, curve-based shading, and the analysis of 3D point sets.
Where does Flora Ponjou Tasse work?
Flora Ponjou Tasse is CTO of Selerio.
What companies did Flora Ponjou Tasse found?
Flora Ponjou Tasse founded Selerio.
Where did Flora Ponjou Tasse go to school?
Flora Ponjou Tasse studied at University of Cambridge (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science); University of Cape Town (Master of Science, Computer Science); Rhodes University (Bachelor of Science Honours, Computer Science).

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