Sean Hendryx leads capability research and applied ML for vision and language applications at Scale AI, managing both the computer vision and generative AI machine learning teams. He was previously a machine learning tech lead at Standard AI, an autonomous checkout company, where he built large-scale training stacks and real-time video inference systems. Before that, he was the first engineer at Explorer.ai, an autonomous vehicle mapping company later acquired by Standard. He holds two master of science degrees majoring in machine learning and remote sensing from the University of Arizona and has published papers on meta-learning for image segmentation, federated learning, natural language processing, and remote sensing. Sean is currently focused on advancing foundation models by efficiently integrating human in the loop.