Principal Engineer at Intel / Intel Labs
San Francisco Bay Area
Principal Engineer at Intel / Intel Labs
San Francisco Bay Area
AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and robotics.
AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and robotics.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Research industry)
December 2007 — Present (11 months)
Willow Garage is a cross between a Robotics Research Institute and a Robotics Startup/Incubator. I am heading up the machine learning and perception software efforts there. http://www.willowgarage.com
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Helped do the vision system on Stanley, the robot that one the Darpa Grand Challenge $2M race across the desert lead by Prof. Sebastian Thrun. Now working on STAIR -- the robot butler lead by Andrew Ng.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Coded algorithms and strategy in computer vision for this video search startup.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
June 1996 — September 2006 (10 years 4 months)
Had a lot of fun working in Intel research, got tired of it finally. Was a good ride while it lasted, especially the .boom years.
Founded OpenCV -- computer vision library. Got Intel involved with the robot race by funding and working with the Stanford (winning) team.
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1996 — 2006 (10 years)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
November 1994 — June 1996 (1 year 8 months)
Was a quant on a derivative securities trading floor aka interest rate options. Hated the job, hated the city, paid well though.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1989 (2 years)
A fun consulting stint mostly to medical electronics makers (computerized EEG).
Helped found Neurosoft -- working as a consultant FUN
Worked on manufacturing visual inspection equipment, sub-contract to IBM.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)
September 1985 — September 1987 (2 years 1 month)
Helped do the software and hardware for an early computerized EEG company.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
September 1984 — August 1985 (1 year)
Design proximity access security systems. You carry a card that can be read at a distance to access doors etc. Also controlled other events, monitored fire etc. First real job, kind of fun designing hardware, kind of boring too.
PhD, AI, machine learning, neuro-modeling, 1989 — 1993
BS, EECS, electrical engineering, computer science, 1979 — 1981
Mountain biking, biking, volleyball. Techno-mysticism (you know, the Kurzweilian type stuff -- embarrassing I know at the same level of being a functioning alcoholic -- but there you have it). AI, nature of intelligence, biological intelligence, brain modeling and, naturally, geology (vast sweep of time, yada yada). Brain
Computer vision
Was on the winning team of the Darpa Grand Challenge $2M race across the desert.