![My photo, wearing rainbow overalls](/headshot-half-body.jpg)
Armin Samii
Just a guy on a bicycle, yelling about ranked-choice voting.
About
I am the Founder of dashcam.bike, a small business building tools to make streets safer for city cyclists.
I founded and continue to lead RCVis, which has been used by millions of voters worldwide to better understand the results of Ranked Choice Voting elections.
Previously, I helped humans and self-driving cars communicate with graphics & visualizations at Argo AI, leading the Visualization, Remote Guidance, and User Experience teams.
Prior to 2019, I worked on fashion-technology at Avametric, a virtual fitting room startup that helps you choose the best size for your body. Prior to 2015, I worked on Photoshop Fix and Mix at Adobe, shipping some of the first mobile Photoshop apps to millions of users.
I received my Master's from the Visual Computing Lab at U.C. Berkeley, advised by James O'Brien and funded by the NSF GRFP. I received my Bachelor's from U.C. Santa Cruz, advised by James Davis.
I live in the bridgiest city in the world: Pittsburgh, PA. I volunteer with March on Harrisburg and Better Streets Lawrenceville.
Email me at hello@arminsamii.com.
Last updated: Sep 2023
Projects
![dashcam.bike](/teasers/dashcam-icon.png)
![Hazard Reporting](/press/bizjournals-hazard-map.png)
![UberCheats](/teasers/ubercheats.png)
![Argo AI Visualizations](/teasers/argoai.jpg)
![Transcroobie](/teasers/transcroobie.png)
![Vocabulary Quizzer](/teasers/vocab-quizzer.png)
Press
![The delivery rider who took on his faceless boss](/press/ft-ubercheats.jpg)
![2024 'State of our Streets' released in Lawrenceville](/press/wpxi-bsl-2024.jpg)
![Our Train-Themed Wedding!](/press/wedding.jpg)
![WBUR](/press/hereandnow.png)
![Pittsburgh City Paper](/press/citypaper.jpg)
![CityCast Pittsburgh](/press/citycast.jpg)
![City Paper PGH](/press/citypaper.jpg)
![technical.ly](/press/reallist.jpg)
![WPXI](/press/wpxi-bsl-2023.jpg)
![The Business Journals](/press/bizjournals-hazard-map.png)
![WPXI](/press/wpxi-safe-in-bike-lanes.jpg)
![Fox 5 New York](/press/fox5ny.jpg)
![Ballotpedia](/press/ballotpedia.jpeg)
![Wired](/press/wired.jpg)
Research & Patents
![Using adaptive meshes in fixed-mesh pipelines](/teasers/adaptive-resampling.png)
George Brown, Armin Samii, James F. O'Brien, and Rahul Narain
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2015
![A Perceptually Based Model of Visual Adaptation](/teasers/lowlight.png)
![Aesthetics-driven automatic cropping](/teasers/crop-paper.png)
Armin Samii, Zhe Lin, and Radomir Měch
Computer Graphics Forum 2014
![ARCSIM: Adaptive Remeshing for Cloth Sim](/teasers/adaptive-cloth.jpg)
Rahul Narain, Armin Samii, and James F. O'Brien
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2012
![Image Sorter](/teasers/imagesorter.png)
Bartending
![Murder Mystery Party](/bartending/hattersball2018-thumb.png)
![Avametric Holiday Party](/bartending/avametricparty2015-thumb.jpg)
Get in touch
I am Very Online™ and only a month or two behind the Good Good Memes. I even had a TikTok once. I recommend you follow me on Twitter, though feel free to choose another presence: