Steve Allen

Background

About Steve Allen

I've spent over two decades building machines that see. From crafting real-time image pipelines in industrial automation labs, to engineering deep learning systems for defense-grade visual intelligence, to now leading architecture for embedded AI at NVIDIA — my journey has been equal parts precision and possibility. What fascinates me isn't just how we teach machines to recognize objects, but how vision systems help us understand context, motion, and the decisions that follow. Whether it's deploying detection models at the edge, fusing multi-modal sensor data, or optimizing CV architectures across autonomous platforms, I’m driven by the challenge of turning pixels into insights. But behind all that code and math, I'm also just someone who believes in perspective — both professionally and personally. I find joy in traveling to places where no algorithm can predict the next experience, and I’m endlessly curious about the way different cultures interpret taste, texture, and tradition. Whether it’s a bowl of hand-pulled noodles in Xi’an or espresso in Naples, I believe food tells stories algorithms can't. At the intersection of structured logic and unstructured wonder — that’s where I like to live. That’s also where the best ideas are born.