JE

Jan Erik

Chairman at Overture Maps Foundation

Menlo Park, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Chairman

    2022 - Current

  • Engineering Director, Maps

    2020

  • CEO and co-founder

    2013 - 2020

    Mapillary is the platform that makes street-level images and map data available to scale and automate mapping. Acquired by Facebook.

  • Associate Professor

    2008 - 2016

    Associate Professor at the Mathematical Imaging Group at the Department of Mathematics, Lund Institute of Technology / Lund University doing research in applied mathematics and computer vision.

  • Computer Vision Researcher

    2013 - 2013

    Worked as an independent researcher on future features and research in the computer vision space. Evaluation and screening of technology and companies.

  • Engineering Manager

    2010 - 2012

    Lead a computer vision R&D team, part of the Media Science Group.

  • Founder & CTO

    2006 - 2010

    Founder and CTO of Polar Rose AB, (formerly Ground Truth Vision AB), a company working with innovative image search using face recognition and computer vision. Acquired by Apple.

  • PhD student

    2002 - 2006

  • Founder & CEO

    2005 - 2006

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