resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Jack Saunders",
    "label": "PhD Student | Research Scientist",
    "image": "",
    "email": "jacksaunders909@gmail.com",
    "url": "https://jacksaunders909.github.io/",
    "summary": "Final Year (I Hope) PhD Student working on Style and Speech in Facial Animation. I have also worked as an intern at Epic Games, the first Employee at DeepReel, and I will intern at Microsoft this summer. I also communicate around lip-sync/talking face/deepfake models through the company I founded called RealSyncAI",
    "location": {
      "city": "Bath",
      "countryCode": "UK",
      "region": "Somerset"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "Twitter",
        "username": "jack_r_saunders",
        "url": "https://x.com/jack_r_saunders"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "jack-r-saunders",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-r-saunders/"
      }

    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "Microsoft",
      "position": "Research Science Intern",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/",
      "startDate": "2024-06-24",
      "endDate": "2024-09-22",
      "summary": "TBC",
      "highlights": [
        "TBC"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "RealSync AI",
      "position": "Founder",
      "url": "https://www.realsyncai.com/",
      "startDate": "2024-04-22",
      "endDate": "N/A",
      "summary": "I founded RealSync to help with my efforts to communicate around lip-sync/talking face/deepfake models.",
      "highlights": [
        "Science Communication",
        "Lip-sync",
        "Talking Face",
        "Deepfake Models"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DeepReel",
      "position": "Reearch Scientist (Part-time)",
      "url": "https://www.deepreel.com/",
      "startDate": "2022-05-01",
      "endDate": "2024-05-01",
      "summary": "As employee number 1 at DeepReel, I designed and implemented DeepReel's AI Avatar Techoology.",
      "highlights": [
        "Lip-sync",
        "Talking Face",
        "AI Avatars"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Epic Games",
      "position": "Reearch Intern",
      "url": "https://www.epicgames.com/",
      "startDate": "2021-11-01",
      "endDate": "2022-05-01",
      "summary": "My internship project involved creating a style transfer model for facial animation.",
      "highlights": [
        "Style Transfer",
        "Facial Animation",
        "3D Facial Animation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of Bath, UK",
      "location": "Bath, UK",
      "url": "https://www.bath.ac.uk/",
      "area": "Computer Science",
      "studyType": "PhD",
      "startDate": "2019-09-01",
      "endDate": "2025-03-01"
    },

    {
      "institution": "University of Southampton, UK",
      "location": "Southampton, UK",
      "url": "https://www.southampton.ac.uk/",
      "area": "Mathematics",
      "studyType": "BSc",
      "startDate": "2016-09-01",
      "endDate": "2019-06-01",
      "score": "First Class Honours"
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "E T Davis Prize for Pure Mathematics",
      "date": "2019-06-01",
      "awarder": "University of Southampton",
      "url": "http://www.calendar.soton.ac.uk/arch2002_3/SectionXV/part6.html",
      "summary": "Awarded to the student with the highest mark in Pure Mathematics in the final year of the BSc Mathematics course."
    }
  ],
  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "READ Avatars: Realistic Emotion-controllable Audio Driven Avatars",
      "publisher": "The 34th British Machine Vision Conference",
      "releaseDate": "November 2023",
      "url": "https://readavatars.github.io/",
      "summary": "We condition neural texture models on emotion and improve the realism of audio-driven avatars with an adversarial loss."
    },
    {
      "name": "FACTS: Facial Animation Creation using the Transfer of Styles",
      "publisher": "45th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics",
      "releaseDate": "April 2024",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.09480",
      "summary": "Given an input 3D Facial animation, we create novel facial animations by edit stylistic characteristics, for example changing the emotion or personality of the character."
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Facial Animation | Lip-Sync | Talking Face etc",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "Differntiable Rendering","Neural Texture Models","Style Transfer", "Generative Models","GAN's","Diffusion", "Transformers"
      ]
    },

    {
      "name": "Python",
      "level": "Expert"
    }

  ],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Native Speaker"

    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Faces",
      "icon": "fa-solid fa-tag",
      "keywords": [
      ]
    }
  ]
}