About Gary Bradski
Gary Bradski is a distinguished American scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur, widely recognized as the founder of OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library), the world's dominant computer vision library. He is a pioneer in the fields of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Robotics, having held key roles such as Chief Science Officer at Bonsai Robotics and Consulting Professor at Stanford University. Bradski has also co-founded and been a part of several successful startups, including Industrial Perception (sold to Google) and VideoSurf (sold to Microsoft).
Career
Chief Science Officer
Develop End to End outdoor platform AI, drive academic and research uses of Bonsai Robots and open source data and models on Hugging Face.
President
The dominant computer vision library world wide: OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library).
Director
Umbrella org for: OpenCV, Open3D, CARLA, GTSAM, DLG
http://osvf.org/
Advisor and Angel Funder
Deepnet laptops, desktops, servers and cloud + consulting services
Advisor/Investor
Generalized robotic manipulation.
Adviser
Robotics in parcel sorting. Very pragmatic team of industry veterans
Advisor and Investor
Awesome 3D person, pet, object capture and rigging.
Chief Scientific Officer
This is the for-profit branch of OpenCV. We do expert contracting in AI, Deep Learning, Computer Vision including training, tuning, courseware and optimization to hardware and different sensor types. We also do product partnering and run an AI Marketplace.
Advisor and Investor
Face tracking and real time VFX overlay
Board member
Occipital is a great mobile vision application company that's doing things the others are not. It developed the best iPhone barcode reader: Red Laser.
Chief Robotic Vision Scientist
Logistics
CVO
Farm-ng makes mobile autonomous outdoor robots
Strategic Advisor
Reinforcement learning robotics
Advisor and Investor
SLAM applied to indoor/home applications
Technical Fellow
Gauss Surgical makes computer vision-based medical products that enhance surgical outcomes while decreasing costs.
CTO
**SOLD to Matterport**
Vision and Deep Learning platform in ... you'll see, but very fun, cool stuff.
Join us, promise you a good time! This is the real deal -- a Silicon Valley startup founded over whiskey in a garage at 3am in the morning. We're focused on doing cool things; we've been around long enough to avoid stodgy.
Advisor and Investor
**SOLD to INTEL**
3D room capture.
EIR IDG Capital Group
Sourcing and analyzing deals while working up what's next.
VP Advanced Technology
Founded the Silicon Valley office of Magic Leap. Founded/lead Computer Vision and Deep Learning teams. Kickstarted data collection, calibration and embedded teams.
Director
Open Source Computer Vision Library -- I founded it, manage its direction and wrote a book about it for O'Reilly Press: http://www.amazon.com/Learning-OpenCV-Computer-Vision-Library/dp/0596516134
Founder, Chief Scientist
**SOLD to GOOGLE**
Industrial Perception was the first to apply sensor guided robot manipulation in logistics. Industrial Perception is continuing on inside Google X as Project Move.
TCO, Consulting Rain Maker
**SOLD to INTEL**
Helped them get started and get contracts over time. Absolutely great computer vision contract firm. Intel bought them late 2016
Consulting Professor
Helped do the vision system on Stanley, the robot that won 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.
Senior Scientist
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
VP of Technology
**SOLD TO MICROSOFT**
Coded algorithms and helped form strategy in computer vision for this video search startup. This startup sold in 2011 to Microsoft.
VP Technology
First video search startup. Founding shares.
Principal Engineer
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.
Principal Engineer
Created OpenCV, the Open Source Computer Vision Library now the dominant computer vision library around the world; Managed a computer vision group in the research labs; ran a machine learning in manufacturing group in Intel Research which created their decision tree analysis package and an test reduction system using predictive statistics; Worked on, led the vision group and got Intel involved in supporting Stanley, the robot the won the $2M DARPA Grand Challenge Race Across the Desert.
Quantitiative Analyst
Was a quant on a derivative securities trading floor aka interest rate options. Hated the job, hated the city, paid well though.
Consultant
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.
Engineer
**SOLD 1987**
First computerized EEG company. Helped do the software and hardware.
Engineer
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.
Education
PhD
PhD - AI, machine learning, neuro-modeling
BS
BS - EECS, electrical engineering, computer science
Skills
Core technical and professional competencies derived from decades of pioneering work in Computer Vision, AI, and Robotics.
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Robotics
Deep Learning
OpenCV
Algorithms
Image Processing
Artificial Intelligence
SLAM
Pattern Recognition
C-Level Management
Startup Founding
Venture Capital
Business Development
Strategic Planning
R&D Management
Technology Transfer
Open-Source Software
Software Engineering
Python
C++
CUDA
Embedded Systems
System Architecture
Consulting
Academic Research
Mentorship
Technical Writing
Public Speaking
Domains
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Open-Source Software
Autonomous Systems, Logistics Automation, Augmented Reality, Medical Technology
Tags
Pioneer, Visionary, Entrepreneurial, Educator, Data-Driven
Open-Source Advocate, Deep Tech, Research-Oriented, Startup Builder
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