Gary Bradski
Gary Bradski is a highly accomplished researcher and entrepreneur in the fields of computer vision and machine learning. He founded and is the CEO of OpenCV, the world's most popular computer vision library. He has also co-founded several startups, including Industrial Perception, which was acquired by Google in 2013, and he created the Silicon Valley office of Magic Leap. Bradski has a long list of patents and publications, and sits on the boards and advisory boards of several Silicon Valley companies. He has 20 years of industrial experience applying machine learning and computer vision, and has organized the computer vision team for Stanley, the autonomous car that kicked off the autonomous driving industry. Bradski served as a visiting Professor at Stanford University Computer Science department for seven years, and co-founded the Stanford AI Robot (STAIR) Project, which was the forerunner of the robot operating system (ROS) and PR2 robot developed at Willow Garage where he also served as Senior Scientist and manager.