Julius Hietala

Machine Learning Engineer

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I'm a machine learning engineer passionate about bridging ML and high-quality software engineering. Currently building intelligent robots at Nimble Robotics.

React Native Llama

A React Native mobile app for running LLaMA language models using ExecuTorch. Run LLaMA models directly on device with a React Native UI.

SAM 2 Visualizer

An interactive visualization tool for Facebook's Segment-Anything 2 (SAM2) model. Experiment with SAM2's segmentation capabilities through an intuitive UI.

Julius is an amazing engineer dedicated to his craft and producing quality software. He has an eye for improving architecture and reducing technical debt.

Holly Gibson

Engineering Manager - Smartly.io

A Dynamic Cloth Folding Robot

A robot agent for folding pieces of fabric. The paper was a best paper finalist at IROS 2022.

An Image Classification App with Expo and YOLOv8

Using Core ML from React Native

crabnet

A simple neural network implemented using Rust 🦀

I would definitely recommend Julius as a very skilled engineer, as an expert in Machine Learning, and just as a very nice and kind person.

Ilya Stakheev

Staff Engineer - Voi

YOLOv5 iOS Object Detector App

I built an iOS object detection app with YOLOv5 and Core ML. Check out the tutorial (blog/Medium) to know how you can build one too!

Stray Robots

Stray Robots is a set of tools to help build 3D computer vision datasets and models

His thesis yielded significant results that garnered interest from the academic community. His contributions pushed the boundaries of the current state-of-the-art in cloth manipulation.