Ethan Le

Verified Expert in Video AI, Machine Learning & Large-Scale System Design

Senior Research Fellow, Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A²I²), Deakin University, Australia

15+ years in machine learning and video analytics, advancing object-centric representation and neural reasoning.

Core Expertise
Bio

Dr. Ethan Le earned his PhD in Computer Vision and ML from UIUC (2014) and worked on Amazon Go and Rekognition (2014–2017). Since 2017, he has been at Deakin University’s Applied AI Institute, becoming Senior Research Fellow in 2022. He has published at ECCV and CVPR, and led an AI grant for cerebral palsy detection, joining conferences like IJCAI and KDD.

Education

– PhD in Computer Science: University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign, USA (2014)
– MSc: University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign (2007–2014 PhD period includes MSc)
– BSc: Hanoi University of Technology (~2007)

Skill

– Technical & Innovation: Video Object-Centric Representation | Neural Reasoning | Video QA | Anomaly Detection | Large-Scale ML | AI for Healthcare
– Research & Leadership: Academic Publishing | R&D Leadership | Grant Management | Post-doctoral Mentorship
– Communication & Collaboration: Conference Speaking | Workshop Leadership | Cross-Disciplinary Teaming | Industry-Academia Collaboration

Work Experience

2022 – Present

Senior Machine Learning Scientist
Amazon, Australia

– Developing Large Language Models (LLM), recommender systems, and deep learning solutions.
– Contributing to scalable machine learning pipelines in global production environments.

2022 – Present
2022 – 2023

Senior Research Lecturer
Deakin University, Australia

– Conducted research on neural reasoning, structured video representation, and medical computer vision.
– Delivered lectures and supervised graduate students in computer vision and deep learning projects.

2022 – 2023
2017 – 2022

Research Fellow
Deakin University, Australia

– Focused on structured video understanding and human behavior analysis for video analytics.
– Published in top-tier conferences and led grant-funded research initiatives.

2017 – 2022
2016 – 2017

Research Engineer – AWS Rekognition
Amazon, Greater Seattle Area

– Built large-scale computer vision pipelines for AWS Rekognition.
– Contributed to US Patent 10,949,353 and improved video activity recognition services.

2016 – 2017
2014 – 2016

Software Development Engineer, Computer Vision – Amazon Go
Amazon, Greater Seattle Area

– Designed and developed computer vision systems enabling Amazon Go’s cashierless stores.
– Delivered three major services and contributed to four US patents for Amazon Go.

2014 – 2016
2007 – 2014

PhD Candidate
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

– Researched 3D facial modeling and expression recognition from videos (collaborated with Adobe, Cisco).
– Published and contributed to machine learning algorithm advancements in data science.

2007 – 2014
2012

Summer Intern
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

– Developed SLAM systems for 3D scene reconstruction with RGB-D data.
– Contributed to US Patent 9,286,717.

2012
2011

Summer Intern
Adobe

– Created algorithms for facial shape modeling and future Photoshop features.
– Collected facial datasets and contributed to four US patents.

2011
2010

Summer Intern
Nuvixa Inc. / Coordinated Science Lab

– Built head and eye tracking algorithms for telepresence and video conferencing.
– Demonstrated technology at CES 2011.

2010
2007

R&D Associate
FPT Corp., Vietnam

– Developed image processing and object recognition modules for robotic vision systems.

2007

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