Tom Bishop, Ph.D.

Algorithms expert with 15 years experience in AI/Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Computational Photography and Image Processing. From 2013-2018, Tom developed core technology at Apple powering the iPhone’s Portrait Mode. During his early career as a PhD / Post-Doc researcher, he developed inverse imaging technology and published papers in areas such as De-blurring, Super-Resolution, and Depth Estimation, with applications to novel computational camera architectures including Light Fields and coded imaging. He later lead teams in industry and drove innovation at two startups, applying cutting edge Machine Learning methods to Computer Vision problems, applied to automated Photo Retouching products and large scale image recognition, retrieval and representation learning systems.