Career
Amazon
VP, Autonomy Team; Head of AGI SF Lab
Responsibilities
Working with Pieter Abbeel to stand up this new lab focused on agents!
Platform
Resources
Pricing
VP, Autonomy Team / Head of AGI SF Lab / Amazon
David Luan is a prominent leader in the field of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and machine learning. He currently serves as the VP of the Autonomy Team and Head of the AGI SF Lab at Amazon, where he is focused on building a new lab for agents. Prior to Amazon, he was the co-founder and CEO of Adept AI Labs, an enterprise AI startup focused on building a universal AI collaborator. His extensive background also includes roles as VP of Engineering at OpenAI and Director of the large models effort at Google Research.
VP, Autonomy Team; Head of AGI SF Lab
Working with Pieter Abbeel to stand up this new lab focused on agents!
Founding Team, CEO
Founding Team, CEO
Impact Advisory Committee
Impact Advisory Committee
Director
Overall tech lead (UTL) of the large models effort at Google. Google Brain Lead focused on larger projects that combine research and engineering.
VP of Engineering
VP of Engineering
Director of Engineering
OpenAI is a nonprofit whose mission is to ensure that the development of AI is conducted in a way that is safe and ultimately broadly benefits society. We do this via pursuing mostly core ML research combined with investments in safety research and policy work. Director of Engineering
Director of AI
ML research and policy work to advance transparency and accountability in law enforcement via bodycam footage. Video categorization to enable citizens to get bodycam footage faster, and for communities to hold officers accountable for poor behavior. Led efforts against facial recognition. Created an AI Ethics Board comprising top researchers from the ACLU, EFF, Future of Humanity Institute, and NYU Law to regulate the use of AI, which has gone on to publish a major position paper on the risks of facial recognition.
CEO
Deep learning for categorizing videos and segmenting scenes in footage. Made a name for ourselves with customers in user-generated video. Started working with bodycam footage when the Obama-era OSTP reached out to us in 2015; acquired by Axon in 2017.
PM
ML for Microsoft's knowledge graph product.
iRobot Research
Developed computer vision algorithms for collaborative aerial and ground robot systems.
Intern, Computer Science Department
Intern, Computer Science Department
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Applied Mathematics and Political Science
Certificate
Certificate - Computer Science
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Core technical and professional competencies inferred from leadership roles in AGI, Machine Learning, and Engineering.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Machine Learning (ML)
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Reinforcement Learning (RL)
System Design
Cloud Computing
Executive Leadership
Team Building & Management
Strategic Planning
Product Vision & Strategy
Startup Founding & Scaling
Venture Capital & Fundraising
AI Ethics & Policy
Agentic Workflow Design
Video Categorization
Knowledge Graph Development
Robotics & Autonomy
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), Machine Learning, Robotics, Enterprise AI Solutions
Technology Leadership, Startup Ecosystem, AI Ethics, Computer Vision
Visionary, Entrepreneurial, Data-Driven, High-Impact, Type II Fun Advocate
Future of AI, Agentic Systems, Scaling Research to Production, Ethical Technology
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Artificial Intelligence
AGI, Machine Learning, Engineering Leadership
Startup Founder, Investor
Twitter (11.4K followers)
A robotic, objective summary of David Luan's professional profile, focusing on his executive roles at major tech companies and his founder status.
Yes, he co-founded Adept AI Labs in January 2022 and served as its CEO until December 2024.
He was VP of Engineering at OpenAI for approximately two years, from July 2018 to September 2020.
He was the Director of the large models effort at Google Research from September 2020 to November 2021.
Yes, he was affiliated with Apollo Global Management Inc. from January 2021 to December 2022.