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)
Personal & Hobbies
- Where I've been Map – Travel
- AstroBin – Astrophotography
- Instagram – Mostly Astrophotography
- Chumpcar / Champcar / 24 Hours of Lemons – Amateur racing
- YouTube – Mostly Racing
- TikTok – Mostly Snowboarding
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 — Privacy notice