Alex Dils Computer Vision · Medical AI
Vol. 03 / No. 02
Berkeley · 2026
§ 00 — Introduction

Alex Dils

Computer science at UC Berkeley. I build ML systems and do research in computer vision and medical AI — robustness, bias, augmentation, segmentation.

AffiliationUC Berkeley · B.A. ’29 CurrentlyCEO & Founder, Infrastruct AlsoCTO & Co-Founder, Appraise AI ResearchStanford CBIR (since 2022) Emaildils [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Alex Dils
01Currently

Currently.

  • 2026 → CEO & Founder, Infrastruct. Building the next-generation infrastructure layer. Industry
  • Nov 2025 → CTO & Co-Founder, Appraise AI. Multimodal pricing engine and large-scale ingestion pipeline for resale marketplaces. Industry
  • 2022 → Research intern, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics. Confounders in skin-lesion diagnosis; physiology-informed augmentation for tumor segmentation. Research
  • 2025 → UC Berkeley, B.A. Computer Science. Expected May 2029. School
02Dispatches

News.

  • Jan2026
    NeurIPS submission in progress.
  • Nov2025
    Co-founded Appraise AI; raised $15K pre-seed.
  • Sep2025
    Acknowledged on the Digital Twin paper, featured on Stanford Medicine’s front page. Read paper →
  • Oct2024
    Posted arXiv preprint on microplastic segmentation.
03Research

Selected work.

Computer vision for medical imaging — robustness, reliability, and the failure modes that don’t show up on the average. The full publication list lives on the Research page.

Paper · 01

Enhancing Medical AI with Physiologically-Informed Data Augmentation

NeurIPS · submission in progress

Physiology-guided augmentation pipelines that explicitly model breathing motion and anatomical deformation to improve robustness of medical segmentation.

Paper · 02

Eye For An Eye — A deep-learning & analytical method to spatializing stereoscopic images.

NHSJS · 2025

Hybrid analytical + deep-learning approach for generating stereoscopic pairs from a single image.

Paper · 03

Microplastic Identification using AI-driven image segmentation and GAN-generated context.

arXiv · 2024

Segmentation model augmented with GAN-generated ecological context to improve cross-background generalization.

04Projects

Things I build outside research.

Project · 01

Appraise AI — multimodal resale pricing engine.

Active · Nov 2025 →

Multimodal pricing engine (vision + NLP) and large-scale ingestion pipeline for resale marketplaces.

05Miscellaneous

Smaller experiments.

Misc · 01

VLUNAR — vision-language experiment.

Project

A vision-language project exploring multimodal representations and evaluation workflows.

Misc · 02

Speed Reader — RSVP reader.

Project

A lightweight speed-reading tool using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) to improve reading efficiency while maintaining comprehension.

06Contact

Get in touch.

Email is the best way to reach me.