Axel Barroso Laguna

Axel Barroso Laguna is a Senior Research Scientist at Niantic Spatial, Inc. since May 2025, with prior experience as a Senior Research Scientist and Research Scientist at Niantic, Inc. from March 2022 to June 2025. Axel's background includes a Research and Development Internship at Niantic, Inc. in 2021 and a role as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Imperial College London from November 2017 to June 2021, where teaching focused on courses in Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning for Computer Vision, and Deep Learning. Additional experience includes a Computer Vision Research Internship at Huawei Technologies in 2019, Software Engineering at Neuroelectrics Barcelona S.L. from 2015 to 2017, and a Research Assistant position at Politecnico di Torino during 2014. Axel holds a PhD in Computer Vision and Deep Learning from Imperial College London, an MSc in Computer Vision from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a combined BSc and MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.