Dr Martin Peniak

Senior Innovation Engineer – Metropolis

AnyVision → Oosto → Metropolis. Based in Spain.

I joined AnyVision as Senior Innovation Engineer in October 2019 and continued through Oosto and its acquisition by Metropolis. My work spans applied computer vision, edge systems, spatial calibration, synthetic vision, and technical prototyping.

Head of Innovation – Cortexica Vision Systems

I led innovation work across machine vision, edge AI, mobile inference, and AR/VR prototypes, including Prism and OVERPaSS.

GPU Engineer – Cortexica Vision Systems

My parallel-computing work covered GPU/OpenCL/CUDA optimization, image-processing pipelines, deep learning experiments, and cloud and edge systems.

Associate Lecturer (GPU programming) – University of Plymouth

Part-time teaching alongside my research in Plymouth, UK. I prepared and taught CUDA classes, lectured and demonstrated, and helped establish GPU teaching infrastructure, including the NVIDIA CUDA Teaching Center, with Davide Marocco and the university team.

NVIDIA research internship – Santa Clara, California

I spent summer 2012 at NVIDIA after presenting GPU cognitive-robotics applications at its Santa Clara headquarters in 2011. The wider 2011-2014 activity includes CUDA Spotlight, an SC11 keynote reference, a GTC 2012 poster, and a GTC 2014 presentation.

PhD researcher, cognitive robotics – University of Plymouth

Research during my PhD, covering iTALK and POETICON++, iCub action-language learning, recurrent neural networks, Aquila, and GPU-accelerated robotics.

Mars rover research – University of Plymouth and ESA ACT

My final-year rover simulator led to Evolution in Robotic Islands. I worked with Angelo Cangelosi and Davide Marocco at Plymouth and ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team on parallel evolutionary robotics, separately from the CUDA work.