Douglas Gray
Principal Scientist — Visual Search at Amazon.
Based in Portola Valley, CA.
Selected Publications and Service
- Co-organizer, Multimodal Representation and Retrieval Workshop (SIGIR 2024, ICCV 2025).
- GENIUS: A Generative Framework for Universal Multimodal Search, CVPR 2025
- Bringing Multimodality to Amazon Visual Search System, KDD 2024
- Amazon Shop the Look: A Visual Search System for Fashion and Home, KDD 2022
- Hierarchical Proxy-Based Loss for Deep Metric Learning, WACV 2022
- Viewpoint Invariant Pedestrian Recognition with an Ensemble of Localized Features, ECCV 2008
- Reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and WACV.
Selected Projects and News Articles
- Amazon Lens, Visual Search Suggestions, and More like This for enhanced product discovery.
- StyleSnap for fashion (2019) and for home (2020).
- A9 Flow augmented reality shopping app (2011).
Education & Work History
Principal Scientist, Amazon Visual Search (2025–Present)
Senior Manager, Applied Science, Amazon Visual Shopping (2020–2025)
Manager, Applied Science, Amazon Visual Search & AR (2016–2020)
Applied Scientist, A9.com Visual Search (2011–2016)
Research Scientist, Akiira Media Systems, Palo Alto (2010–2011)
Graduate Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz (2005–2010)
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz (2005–2010)
B.S., Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz (2001–2005)
Contact
611 Cowper St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Email: (my full name with dots as spaces, my middle name is Ryan) at gmail
Last updated: 5/20/2025