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Jan Erik

Director, Maps at Meta

Menlo Park, California

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Skills

Applied Mathematics
Pattern Recognition
Image Analysis
Image Processing
Mathematics
Research
Computer Vision
Python
Machine Learning
Entrepreneurship
Mathematical Modeling
Digital Imaging
Software Development
Computer Science
Scalability
Artificial Intelligence
Algorithms
Signal Processing

Education

Work Experience

Overture Maps Foundation

2022

  • Chairman

    2022

Meta

2020

  • Engineering Director, Maps

    2020

Mapillary

2013 - 2020

  • CEO and co-founder

    2013 - 2020

    Mapillary is the platform that makes street-level images and map data available to scale and automate mapping. Acquired by Facebook.

Lunds Universitet

2008 - 2016

  • Associate Professor

    2008 - 2016

    Associate Professor at the Mathematical Imaging Group at the Department of Mathematics, Lund Institute of Technology / Lund University doing research in applied mathematics and computer vision.

Apple

2010 - 2013

  • Computer Vision Researcher

    2013 - 2013

    Worked as an independent researcher on future features and research in the computer vision space. Evaluation and screening of technology and companies.

  • Engineering Manager

    2010 - 2012

    Lead a computer vision R&D team, part of the Media Science Group.

Polar Rose

2006 - 2010

  • Founder & CTO

    2006 - 2010

    Founder and CTO of Polar Rose AB, (formerly Ground Truth Vision AB), a company working with innovative image search using face recognition and computer vision. Acquired by Apple.

Malmo University

2002 - 2006

  • PhD student

    2002 - 2006

Polar Rose AB

2005 - 2006

  • Founder & CEO

    2005 - 2006