PhD Candidate @ OSU Computer Science & Engineering

dominikwinecki@gmail.com – github.com/dominikWin

Computer Science PhD candidate at OSU graduating in 2026, working on advanced video and data systems. Looking for post-graduation oppertunities in industry.

Research:

• Vidformer: Drop-in Declarative Optimization for Rendering Video-Native Query Results (in submission)
• Crisis Observatory: Extracting Credible Signals During a Crisis in the Age of LLMs (ICDM’25 Demo)
• Accelerating Video Segment Access via Quality-Aware Multi-Source Selection (MMSys’25)
• Photometry of Saturated Stars with Neural Networks (ApJ’24)
• V2V: Efficiently Synthesizing Video Results for Video Queries (ICDE’24)
• Camera-First Form Filling: Reducing the Friction in Climate Hazard Reporting (HILDA’23)
• On the Fly Dynamic Graph Generation for Video Processing (NCUR’19)

Projects:

• vidformer - A system for instant video results from video queries
• rpSQL - SQL query planner that targets a research database
• Badlog - A robotics data logging and visualization framework
• Chip8 - CHIP-8 interpreter
• Arcs - A robot and control system that uses a scanning LIDAR to map it’s surroundings
• Asteroids and Tanks games from early highschool