Vojin Dedović

Microsoft, Sr. Software Engineer

Vojin was born in Belgrade, Serbia, where he completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the School of Electrical Engineering, specializing in Digital Signal Processing and Machine Learning. He joined Microsoft in 2021 as an intern in the Mixed Reality team, contributing to neural relighting research for the Holoportation project. In 2022, he transitioned to a full-time role, focusing on face expression tracking using non-vision-based approaches. In 2023, his team became part of the Applied Sciences Group, where they shifted their focus to developing AI-powered experiences for Windows. Vojin continues to work in this team and is currently a Senior Software Engineer specializing in the research and development of Generative AI models for edge devices. His work spans a big portion of the pre-production AI stack, including quantization-aware training, post-training quantization, computational graph optimization and transformation, as well as the design and optimization of inference pipelines for LLMs running on dedicated hardware accelerators.