Function shaping in deep learning

Ēvalds Urtāns was born in 1987, in Riga (Latvia). He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of South Wales, UK, in 2009 and his Master’s degree, specializing in intellectual robotic systems from Riga Technical University. His Master thesis “Active infrared markers for augmented and virtual reality” received the first prize in the Latvian Master Thesis contest “ZibIT” in 2015.

Afterwards E. Urtāns turned to the domain of deep learning and during doctoral studies published multiple research papers in this field receiving the third place in Latvian Doctoral Students Contest Research Slam in 2018, as well as the Best Paper Award in the ICCDA conference in USA in 2020. In total, E. Urtāns is an author of eight scientific publications.

Currently E. Urtāns is a lecturer in artificial intelligence and deep learning at three universities in Latvia: Riga Technical University, Ventspils University of Applied Sciences, and Liepaja University. He has supervised eight bachelor theses and been a scientific advisor to four master theses, of which one received the second prize in Master Thesis Contest “ZibIT” in 2019.

E. Urtans is the founder of start-up “ASYA” Ltd which till now has attracted more than half a million EUR of venture capital investments and in which he commercializes his published research.