Dr. Martin Reddy is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the AAIA, and a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh and has over 30 years of experience in the software industry.
Martin was co-founder and CTO of PullString, an AI company acquired by Apple in 2019. At Apple, he was a software architect in the AI/ML division, responsible for the architecture and APIs of major components of Siri. Previously, he spent six years at Pixar Animation Studios as a lead software engineer working on APIs and tooling for the studio's in-house animation system, contributing to films including Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Wall-E.
He began his career at SRI International, where he co-authored the geospatial features of the VRML and X3D ISO standards. His PhD research focused on perceptually-modulated level of detail for real-time 3D graphics and virtual reality systems.
Martin has published over 40 professional articles and holds 10 patents.