Jerrin Bright

I am a Founding Engineer at Mecka AI, building the data and deployment layer for humanoids. My work spans egocentric perception, multimodal model development, and scalable pretraining, post-training, and data pipelines for VLA and world-model systems for robotics and AI teams. I am also a doctoral candidate at the University of Waterloo, supervised by Dr. John Zelek.

My work focuses on visual understanding from sparse, real-world video. At Mecka, I build video-understanding and multimodal-learning systems for egocentric embodied agents. In my PhD, I study 4D human-scene reconstruction from monocular videos using 3D foundation models. My earlier work in sports biomechanics focused on practical motion analysis from ordinary baseball and softball video.

Previously, I collaborated with the Baltimore Orioles (MLB) for 3+ years on markerless player kinematics and pitch analysis from video, supporting biomechanics-driven performance evaluation.

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Mecka UWaterloo Orioles IISc
McMaster ASU Yuan-Ze VIT

News

  • [2026/09] 🎉 WildHSR is submitted to ICLR 2027! [Project Page]
  • [2026/07] 🎉 Awarded the Merit Scholarship Award at the University of Waterloo!
  • [2026/06] 🎉 CoGS is submitted to 3DV 2027! [arXiv]
  • [2026/06] Attended CVPR 2026 in Denver, Colorado.
  • [2026/05] 🚀 DraftPilot is released, a local-first AI workspace for research papers! [Website]
  • [2026/05] 🎉 DreamPose3D gets accepted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia!
  • [2026/04] Advanced to PhD candidacy at the University of Waterloo.
  • [2026/03] 🎉 Three papers get accepted to CVPR Workshop 2026!
  • [2025/12] Attended NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego.
  • [2025/09] Joined Mecka AI as Founding Engineer.
  • [2025/08] On-site with Baltimore Orioles for PitcherNet deployment.
  • [2025/05] 🎉 Gen4D gets accepted to CVPR Workshop 2025.
  • [2025/05] 🎉 SportMamba gets accepted as Oral at CVPR Workshop 2025!
  • [2025/04] Featured in media for PitcherNet.
  • [2024/09] 🎉 TokenCliPose gets accepted to NeurIPS 2024!
  • [2024/05] 🏆 Best Paper Award at CRV 2024!
  • [2024/04] 🎉 PitcherNet gets accepted as Oral at CVPR Workshop 2024!

Timeline & Experience
Aug 2025 - Present
Founding Engineer, Mecka AI
Egocentric Perception, Vision-Language Models, Embodied Agents
Sep 2022 - Apr 2026
MITACS Accelerate Research Intern, Baltimore Orioles
Sports Vision, Biomechanical Analysis, Neural Rendering
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Research Intern, AI & Robotics Lab with ARTPARK, Indian Institute of Science
Autonomous UAV Navigation, Monocular Depth Estimation, Multimodal Learning
Jul 2021 - Sep 2021
Globalink Research Intern, Robotics and Automation Lab, McMaster University
Soft Robotics, Modeling and Analysis, Simulation
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Summer Research Intern, Edifice Lab, Arizona State University
Photogrammetry, 3D Scene Reconstruction, Sensor Fusion
Oct 2020 - Apr 2021
Autonomous System Developer, Aero2Astro
Visual Odometry, GPS-Denied Navigation, VI-SLAM
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Project Research Intern, Speech and Image Processing Lab, Yuan-Ze University
Localization, Conditional Random Fields, Anomaly Detection

Things I Built

DraftPilot
Local-first AI workspace for writing LaTeX research papers with local PDF compilation, SyncTeX navigation, linked codebase context, todo planning, and deadline management.
Website | Discord
OpenForm Labs
Private beta for teams, coaches, and player development groups, turning ordinary baseball and softball video into accessible 3D biomechanics insights and shareable athlete reports.

Research

My research spans three active directions: egocentric video understanding for embodied AI, 4D human-scene reconstruction from monocular videos, and markerless sports biomechanics from broadcast and single-camera video. See Google Scholar for individual papers.

Thesis
PhD Comprehensive Exam
4D World Reconstruction of Humans, Scenes, and Camera Systems
Supervisor: John Zelek
PhD Comprehensive Exam, University of Waterloo, 2026 · GPA: 4.0/4.0
Slides | BibTeX
thesis
Robust 3D Human Modeling for Baseball Sports Analytics
Supervisor: John Zelek
Master's Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2024 · GPA: 3.9/4.0
UWSpace | Slides | BibTeX
thesis
End-to-End Autonomous UAV System in GPS-Denied and Unstructured Environments
Supervisor: Arockia Selvakumar
Bachelor's Thesis, VIT Chennai, 2022 · GPA: 3.7/4.0
PDF | Slides | BibTeX

Selected Awards

  • 2026:Merit Scholarship Award, University of Waterloo
  • 2026:Graduate Student Research Dissemination Award, University of Waterloo
  • 2025:International Doctoral Student Award, University of Waterloo
  • 2025:Engineering Graduate Merit Award, University of Waterloo
  • 2025:University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo
  • 2024:Best Paper Award (Computer Vision), Conference on Robots and Vision
  • 2024:MITACS Accelerate International Award, University of Waterloo
  • 2024:International Master's Award of Excellence, University of Waterloo
  • 2024:Graduate Research Studentship, University of Waterloo
  • 2022:MITACS Globalink Graduate Fellowship, MITACS Canada
  • 2022:Best Outgoing Student - Robotics Club, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
  • 2021:MITACS Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Waterloo
  • 2020:Outstanding Paper Award, RIACT International Conference

Academic Service

Reviewer: CVPR, BMVC, NeurIPS, 3DV, IROS, EAAI, CVSports, CVIU, MMSports, TNNLS, TCSVT, TMM, CVIS, CTIS, IMAVIS, The Journal of Supercomputing

Technical Program Member: ACM MMSports @ ACM Multimedia 2024

Teaching Assistant:

  • SYDE461: Systems Design Capstone Project 1 (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)
  • SYDE462: Systems Design Capstone Project 2 (Winter 2024, Winter 2025)
  • SYDE361: Systems Design Methods 1: Needs Analysis and Prototyping (Summer 2024)
  • BME361: Biomedical Engineering Design (Winter 2023)
  • BME101L: Communications in Biomedical Engineering: Visualization (Fall 2022)

Media Coverage

My work has been featured in:

  • Toronto Star: "The Baltimore Orioles are developing a game-changing baseball technology, with help from a Canadian university" (April 18, 2025)
  • Baltimore Sun: "Orioles developing form of AI technology that could someday change scouting forever" (April 23, 2025)
  • UWaterloo Media: "PitcherNet helps researchers throw strikes with AI analysis" (April 23, 2025)
  • CTV News: "Making a pitch to change the game: Waterloo tech to analyze baseball pitcher's performance with smartphone" (April 29, 2025)
  • CBC News: "UW researchers use AI to analyze baseball players' movements" (April 30, 2025)
  • The Globe and Mail: "University of Waterloo, Orioles partner on AI project to track pitcher biomechanics" (April 29, 2025)
  • Global News: "University of Waterloo researchers develop AI technology for Baltimore Orioles" (May 13, 2025)
  • Baseball HQ Radio: "Friday Full Edition w Jerrin Bright" (May 23, 2025)

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