Ulrik Stig Hansen

Ulrik Stig Hansen

Ulrik is the President & Co-Founder of Encord. Ulrik started his career in the Emerging Markets team at J.P. Morgan. Ulrik holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Imperial College London.

In his spare time, Ulrik enjoys writing ultra-low latency software applications in C++ and enjoys experimental sushi making.

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Customers
Logistics
Retail & E-Commerce
Training Computer Vision Models to Track Rented Assets

6 min

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Customers
Healthcare
Using Computer Vision to Prevent Falls in Care Homes and Hospitals

7 min

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Company
Encord at ICLR 2025

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Customers
Agriculture
Generative AI
Accurately Measuring Carbon Content in Forests

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Customers
Physical AI
Logistics
Human safety
Finding a Reliable Ecosystem to Scale Model Development

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Customers
Healthcare
How Harvard Medical School and MGH Cut Down Annotation Time and Model Errors with Encord

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Customers
Physical AI
Agriculture
Transforming Fruit and Vegetable Harvesting & Analytics with Computer Vision

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Customers
Healthcare
Accelerating Diagnosis to Treatment with Encord

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Company
Meet Mavis - Product Design Lead at Encord

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Company
Meet Rad - Head of Engineering at Encord

3 min

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Company
Recap 2024 - An Epic Foundational Year 

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Data Operations
5 Ways to Improve The Quality of Labeled Data

8 min

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Company
Recap: AI After Hours - Physical AI (Special Edition)

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Company
Providing Computer Vision Infrastructure for Project Stormcloud

2 min

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MultimodalText
Spirit LM: Meta AI’s Multimodal Model for Seamless Text and Speech Generation

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Computer Vision
What the European AI Act Means for AI Developers

30 min

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Machine LearningAgents
Exploring Google DeepMind's Latest AI Innovations: Gemini 2.0, Veo 2, and Imagen 3

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Computer Vision
SAM 2.1 Explained: Smarter Segmentation and Developer Tools For the Future

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Machine Learning
Generative AI is overrated, long live old-school AI!

5 min

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Data Operations
The Full Guide to Outsourcing Data Labeling for Machine Learning

12 min

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Machine Learning
Object Detection: Models, Use Cases, Examples

4 min

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Machine LearningComputer Vision
How to Start a Computer Vision Startup

10 min

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Machine LearningComputer Vision
6 Use Cases for Computer Vision in Insurance

10 min

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Machine Learning
Key Insights from the Inaugural AI After Hours

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Learn
What the European AI Act Means for You, AI Developer [Updated December 2023]

11 min

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Company
Why AI Is the Mother of All Unicorns

4 min

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Machine Learning
What Is Computer Vision In Machine Learning

5 min

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Machine Learning
Encord as a Step Up from CVAT + Voxel51: Why Teams Are Making the Switch

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Computer Vision
What is Embodied AI? A Guide to AI in Robotics

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Data Operations
The Full Guide to Training Datasets for Machine Learning

10 min

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Audio
A Guide to Speaker Recognition: How to Annotate Speech

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Customers
Sports
Rapid Annotation & Flexible Ontology for a Sports Tech Startup

10 min

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Customers
Healthcare
How King's College London used Encord to annotate videos 6.4x faster

3 min

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Customers
Healthcare
How Surgical Data Science Collective (SDSC) Conducted Video Annotation 10x Faster

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Customers
Logistics
Human safety
Improving Efficiency in the Construction Industry with Encord

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Customers
Consumer
Accelerating the Prediction of Consumer Behaviour with Encord

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Customers
Reducing Model False Positive Rate from 6% to 1% with Vida ID

8 min

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Customers
Healthcare
Floy Reduced CT & MRI Annotation Time with AI-Assisted Labeling

7 min

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Customers
Agriculture
Saving the Honey Bees with Computer Vision

3 min

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Customers
Healthcare
Reducing MRI and CT Annotation Time by 70% for Rapid AI

5 min

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Customers
Logistics
Smart cities
Boosting Last-mile Model Performance: Increase mAP by 20% while reducing your dataset size by 25% with intelligent visual data curation

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Customers
Healthcare
Customer Interview: Overcoming The Mental Torture of Manual Data Labelling

7 min

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Customers
Insurance
Building Multimodal AI Systems for Insurance with Tractable

3 min