Christopher Samra

Right now I:

• Build AI enabled consumer tools/gadgets @ Symphonic Labs
• Run readtheirlips.com, the best AI lip reading service online w/25k+ users
• Live between San Francisco & Waterloo

Previously I:

• Worked on advancing the field of silent/visual speech recognition
• Studied Mechatronics Engineering @ UWaterloo
• Started/led a globally recognized undergraduate neurotechnology team
• Spent internships working on software for cars/robots, ML and BCIs
• Made over 200 beats, none of which are on soundcloud
• Used to perform in musical theatre

Cos/Orgs/People that Inspire me:

• Research In Motion
• Teenage Engineering
• Augmental
• Pebble
• North/Thalmic Labs
• Stem Tech (Kano)
• Shopify
• Socratica
• Andrej Karpathy
• Ilya Sutskever
• Elon
• Virgil Abloh
• Dieter Rams
• Tony Fadell
• J Dilla
• James Hobson
• Jobs
• ye

I care about:

• Canadian Dynamism
• Doing meaningful work
• Building great products that stand the test of time