Career Prospects

MSc-CGVI graduates' unique combination of technical skills makes them first choice for the best employers, since similar looking Master's programs do not give the same breadth of topics and technical detail. Feedback from employers confirms the value of the broad technical knowledge our graduates acquire.

A significant proportion of students on the course go on to study a Ph.D. in a related area.  We actively recruit to our own Ph.D. program from this course and the top-ranked students can be reasonably confident of being offered a place for doctoral studies at UCL.  We also have an extensive network of contacts in other top research universities around the world and can give advice about how best to get into other doctoral programmes.

Our graduates

The MSc CGVI has been running for more than ten years (formerly named MSc VIVE) and many of our graduates have gone on to have exciting careers. Below are a sample of our graduates to show you possible career paths after the MSc CGVI.

Daniyar Turmukhambetov (2010-2011)
Daniyar's project was concerned with intrinsic images, supervised by Gabriel Brostow. He is now pursuing a PhD with Jan Kautz at UCL.

Philippe Levieux (2010-2011)
Philippe did his project on light fields for dynamic objects under the supervision of Jan Kautz. He now works for Vision Semantics Ltd in London.

Sam Birley (2009-2010)
Sam did a project on high-dynamic-range rendering in the context of computer games supervised by Jan Kautz. He now works at Headstrong Games (part of Kuju) in London.

Fiona Liu (2009-2010)
Fiona did a project on tracking faces under the supervision of Anthony Steed. After completing her MSc, she started work for Framestore in London.

Andrew Sweet (2008-2009)
Andrew did a project on medical imaging supervised by Professor Daniel Alexander.  After completing the M.Sc. he went to work at the INRIA research institute in Sophia Antipolis, France.

Cristina Amati (2008-2009)
Cristina’s project was supervised by Gabriel Brostow and concerned the automatic animation of hand-drawn images. She now works for London-based computer vision/graphics company, Anthropics.

Frederic Besse (2007‐2008)
Frederic did a project in computational photography supervised by Dr. Jan Kautz. After the masters he went to work for Double Negative Visual Effects where he is a research and development programmer.

Thomi Mertzanidou (2007‐2008)
Thomi did a project on computer vision. After the MSc she decided to stay at UCL study for a Ph.D. in medical image processing, supervised by Dave Hawkes.

Saurabh Sethi (2006-2007)
Saurabh did a project on computer vision techniques for enhancing ancient document images with Danny Alexander. After completing the MSc, he took an internship with Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, USA.

Zhexin Yang (2005‐2006)
Zhexin did a computer graphics project on skin-texture modelling for computer graphics with Celine Loscos.  After completing the MSc, she took a job with the computer-games company Real Time Worlds in Dundee, Scotland.

Guang Yang (2005‐2006)
Guang did a project with Dr. Simon Prince on generating random photorealistic faces. After completing the MSc, he moved back to China to take a job with Siemens as a software developer.

Zhuomin Liu (2005‐2006)
Zhuomin did a project with Dr. Celine Loscos on representing avatars in virtual environments. After completing the MSc, she found a job working as a software developer for a digital TV company in the UK.

Sung‐Hyun Lee (2005‐2006)
Sung‐Hyun did a computer vision project on detecting pedestrians in CCTV footage with Dr. Simon Prince. After the MSc he got a job working in image processing for Samsung in Korea.

Jania Aghajanian (2005‐2006)
Jania did a medical imaging/machine learning project on predicting cognitive states from fMRI with Dr. Daniel Alexander. Since she has done an internship with Google, UK and is now doing a PhD in computer vision at UCL.

Umar Mohammed (2005‐2006)
Umar did a computer vision project on face recognition with Dr. Simon Prince. After completing the MSc, Umar won a Microsoft scholarship and embarked on a PhD in computer vision at UCL, supervised by Dr. Simon Prince.

Sylvia Xeuni Pan (2004‐2005)
Sylvia did a computer graphics project supervised by Celine Loscos. After the MSc, she started a PhD on designing realistic avatars for virtual environments and, specifically, on realistic facial expressions for virtual humans.

Danny Nahmias (2004-2005)
Danny continued to do a PhD with Anthony Steed and now works for Pixar animation studios.

Jamie Wither (2004‐2005)
Jamie did a computer graphics project on photorealistic rendering supervised by Prof. Mel Slater. After the MSc he went to INRIA, Rhones‐Alpes in Grenoble, France to do a PhD.

Kate Bergel (2004‐2005)
Kate did a computer graphics project on texture synthesis. After the MSc, Kate worked for the computer‐gamescompany Electronic Arts and then moved on to work for a movie‐rendering company.  She now works at Pixar.

Mitchelle Chen (2004‐2005)
Mitchelle did a graphics project. After the MSc she went to work for Hewlett‐Packard in China on a collaborative project with the Chinese ministry of education and various universities to create large‐scale digital museums.

Hyun‐Jung Kim (2004‐2005)
Hyun‐Jung did a computer graphics project supervised by Dr. Celine Loscos. After the MSc he took a job a digital map company in Korea making digital maps and car navigation software.

Shahrum Nedjati‐Gilani (2003‐2004)
Shahrum did a medical imaging project on detected multiple‐sclerosis lesions in MRI. After the course, he started an EngD, sponsored by Philips Medical Systems, on image reconstruction in diffusion MRI.

Shree Pavar (2003‐2004)
Shree did a project on adding realistic gestures in avatars in virtual enviroments. After the MSc, he started an EngD in the Centre for Computational Sciences, which is part of the chemistry department at UCL.

Russel Freeman (2003‐2004)
Russel did a computer graphics project supervised by Dr. Anthony Steed. After the MSc, he took a PhD, also supervised by Anthony Steed, on mixed reality.

Ashutosh Chhibbar (2003‐2004)
After completing the MSc VIVE, Ashutosh landed a job with Qinetiq, but decided to reject the offer due to an opportunity to move to California and create a start‐up company whose central focus is vision and imaging.

Katrien Jacobs (2002‐2003)
Katrien did a computer graphics project supervised by Dr. Celine Loscos. She completed her PhD, also supervised by Celine Loscos, on radiosity in 2006 and is now a consultant in the commercial sector.

Yip Wong (2002‐2003)
Yip did a computer graphics project supervised by Dr. Celine Loscos. Yip then began PhD studies, also supervised by Dr. Celine Loscos, on virtual crowd simulations.

Simon Prince (2000-2001)
Simon went off to be a research scientist in Singapore and then Canada before returning in 2005 to become faculty at UCL and teach machine vision on the M.Sc.

Dan Borthwick (2000‐2001)
After completing the course, Dan went to work for the computer games company Ideaworks3D. He has worked on titles such as: The Sims, Need For Speed Underground and Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus.

We are always interested to here from past M.Sc. students and to find out what you are up to nowadays.  Please get in touch with the course director, Jan Kautz.