Visual Effects → Machine Learning

Matthew Bouchard

Machine learning research engineer, by way of visual effects. I spent the first chapter of my career building the tools, pipelines, and images behind feature films — work that was always, underneath, about perception, geometry, and making something synthetic feel real. That through-line is what pulled me into machine learning: the same questions of how we see, reconstruct, and represent the world, now posed to models that learn them rather than pipelines I build by hand. Today my work centers on 3D computer vision, generative models, and digital humans.