Mark Cummins
Investor
Mark Cummins
Investor
Ireland
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2024
Helping future generations of talented but financially-constrained students to study at UWC.
Board Member
2022
Scale Ireland represents, and advocates on behalf of, Irish tech start-up and scale-up companies.
EIR
2023 - 2023
Mentoring founders in the 2023 NDRC cohort at Dogpatch labs.
GM, Pointy
2020 - 2022
Bringing the word's local retail inventory online.
Co-Founder & CEO
2013 - 2020
Pointy is the simplest way to get small shops online. All you need is a barcode scanner. Pointy was acquired by Google in Jan 2020.
Senior Software Engineer
2010 - 2013
Worked on large scale computer vision problems. Our systems were used in many products including Google Goggles, Translate, Drive, Photos, etc. For a public description of some of this work see our ICCV paper: http://goo.gl/3NUp5Q
Co-Founder & CEO
2009 - 2010
Plink became Google's first UK acquisition in April 2010. Our visual search engine technology allowed users to simply take a picture of something in order to find out more about it. Our first product, PlinkArt, recognized famous paintings and was a winner of the ADC2 and a featured app on the Android market.
PhD, Mobile Robotics
2005 - 2009
Vision-based place recognition and mapping for mobile robots (FAB-MAP algorithm). Supervisor: Prof. Paul Newman. -Best vision paper prize, ICRA 2008. -Most cited IJRR paper of the last ten years (Source: http://ijr.sagepub.com/reports/most-cited)
Extreme Blue Internship Program
2004 - 2004
Worked on automated source code translation from Visual Basic to Java. Wrote the core source-to-source translation engine.