Antony Lam received the B.S. degree in Computer Science at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2004 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside in 2010. He then completed a postdoctoral position at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan, worked as an Assistant Professor at Saitama University, and then made a jump to industry. He currently works on research and development of machine learning for e-commerce applications at Mercari, Inc. His research background spans computer vision, physics-based vision, hyperspectral imaging, and machine learning in general.