About

Jiri Borovec is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the field of machine learning and data science. With a Ph.D. in Medical Imaging, Jiri has gained practical experience while working for several IT companies as a consultant, data scientist, or research engineer. Currently, Jiri is working as a Co-Founder at Farm Modules. Jiri has a remarkable academic track record, having published several journal articles and papers on international conferences such as ISBI, ICIP, ACCV, and MICCAI workshops. He is also a reviewer for these conferences and some other IEEE journals. Jiri was the main organizer of the ANHIR challenge. Jiri is an accomplished developer, having created several open-source python packages and being a leading contributor of `PyTorch-Lightning` and other Lightning projects. He is also actively participating in other well-known projects like `auto-sklearn`, `yolov5`, `dipy`, etc. with writing code, reporting issues, building CI/CD, and reviewing PRs. His Github profile is a testament to his coding skills and contributions. Jiri has also demonstrated his managerial skills by leading a small team while developing a video analyze tool. He is currently leading & managing the Lightning team responsible for their open-source projects. Jiri's past companies include Lightning AI, where he worked as an R&D Engineering Manager, and Kendaxa Group, where he worked as a Data Scientist, ML Engineer, and Team lead. At these companies, he worked on various machine learning and data science projects, including automatic web landing page analyses, fraud monitoring, invoice analyses, and automatic shop analyses from a top-view camera. Jiri's education history includes a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Czech Technical University in Prague, a Master's degree in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering from the Technical University of Liberec, and a Bachelor's degree in Elektronické a Informační systémy from the same university. Jiri's tech stack includes AI, Research Scientist, ML, Data Scientist, Scikit, CI/CD, Python, Pytorch, Senior Software Engineer, CNN, test, Computer Vision, and Web. With over 5 years of relevant experience, Jiri is a highly skilled and accomplished professional in the field of machine learning and data science.