Available for advisory & leadership engagements

I architect the systems
that teach machines
to see.

Ashwin Rajendraprasad — Chief AI Officer and computer vision architect. Two decades designing intelligent visual systems across retail, healthcare, entertainment, and enterprise — deployed to 100M+ users in 60+ countries.

20+
Years in AI & CV
60+
Countries
100M+
End users
Trusted by global brands
Google Microsoft Disney CHANEL Bloomingdale's NFL Sephora NARS Google Microsoft Disney CHANEL Bloomingdale's NFL Sephora NARS
01 Who I Am
Philosophy

Vision is the richest sense we have. I build the systems that give machines that same power — and turn it into products that reshape how people experience the world.

I started in academia at USC, studying how machines interpret visual and sensory input. That research became the foundation for everything since — two decades of designing end-to-end computer vision architectures that move from lab to production to global scale.

As Chief AI Officer at FaceCake, I lead the design of intelligent visual systems — real-time perception, spatial understanding, AR rendering, and multimodal AI — powering experiences used by 100M+ people worldwide. I also launched AVA at Google Cloud Next '24, fusing computer vision with large language models into a new kind of visual AI agent.

My work has shaped how major brands deploy visual intelligence: Disney's Magic Mirror, CHANEL's global AR eyewear, experiences for Microsoft, Bloomingdale's, the NFL, Sephora, and NARS. I don't just build models — I architect the full system around them.

02 Where Vision Meets the World

Computer vision is the interface layer between AI and the physical world

I design systems that perceive, understand, and act on visual information — across industries, devices, and scales.

01

Real-Time Perception

3D tracking (500+ facial landmarks), skeletal estimation, depth sensing, segmentation, and gaze analysis — all at real-time speeds on cloud and edge.

02

Spatial Intelligence & AR

Augmented reality systems that understand 3D space, composite virtual objects in real time, and deliver immersive experiences across web, mobile, and kiosks.

03

Visual AI for Commerce

Virtual try-on, visual search, style recognition, and personalization engines that transform how people discover and interact with products.

04

Multimodal & Agentic AI

Systems that fuse visual understanding with language models — AI agents that see, reason, and converse to deliver truly intelligent experiences.

05

Medical & Precision Vision

AR-guided surgical systems, marker tracking for ophthalmic procedures, and precision alignment algorithms where accuracy is life-critical.

06

AI Architecture & Scale

End-to-end ML infrastructure — inference pipelines, MLOps, edge deployment, and the engineering discipline to ship vision systems to millions.

100M+
End users served
worldwide
60+
Countries with live
deployments
20+
Years architecting
vision systems
25+
Global brand
partnerships
03 Select Deployments
Google

AVA — Visual AI Agent

AI + AR personal shopping assistant fusing computer vision with LLMs on Vertex AI. Conversational product discovery with real-time visual understanding.

Google Cloud Next '24
Disney

Magic Mirror

Award-winning real-time AR experience at Walt Disney World and Hong Kong Disneyland. Millions of guests interacting with intelligent visual systems.

2 parks · millions of interactions
CHANEL

Global AR Eyewear

Real-time 3D perception and virtual overlay deployed across CHANEL's worldwide retail presence.

60+ countries
Microsoft

Virtual Dressing Room

Next-generation virtual try-on combining spatial tracking with real-time garment simulation.

Real-time CV
Bloomingdale's

Interactive Retail

In-store AR experiences with real-time body understanding for virtual apparel fitting.

In-store
Sephora · NARS · NFL

Brand Experiences

Virtual try-on and interactive fan experiences — real-time visual AI powering new forms of engagement.

Multi-brand
04 Career
Current

Chief AI Officer

FaceCake Marketing Technologies

Progressed from Senior CV Engineer to VP of Engineering to Chief AI Officer. Designed the computer vision and AR platform from the ground up and scaled it globally with Google, CHANEL, Disney, and Microsoft.

Previous

Computer Vision Algorithm Engineer

Vantage Surgical Systems

AR-enhanced surgical guidance for ophthalmic laser procedures. Real-time marker tracking and precision alignment in C++.

05 Stack
Computer Vision Machine Learning Augmented Reality LLMs Agentic AI PyTorch TensorFlow OpenCV 3D Perception Depth Sensing ARKit / ARCore Unity3D RAG LangChain MCP / A2A Python C / C++ Swift TypeScript Vertex AI AWS SageMaker Docker Kubernetes MLOps Edge AI NVIDIA Jetson AI Governance NIST AI RMF
06 Recognition
2026

Top 50 Fearless Leader of the Year

International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP)

2025

Top Innovative Chief AI Officer of the Year

International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP)

Press

Most Innovative Chief AI Officers Transforming Technology

CIO World Magazine

USC

Outstanding Academic Achievement & Phi Kappa Phi

University of Southern California

07 Education
M.S. Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Specialization: Computer Vision & Machine Learning

Let's build what
comes next.

Available for advisory, fractional AI leadership, and speaking engagements.

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