Adrian Kaehler
CO-CEO at ILLIUM AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAdrian Kaehler is a veteran AI and robotics entrepreneur and researcher with a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia and over two decades of impact spanning self-driving cars, computer vision, and humanoid robotics. He was part of the team behind the DARPA Grand Challenge-winning vehicle that seeded what became Waymo, and his books Learning OpenCV and Computer Vision have shaped the field globally. As founder and former CEO of Giant.AI and now Co-CEO of ILLIUM AI, he builds companies that turn foundational research into deployed systems, from manufacturing humanoid robots to semantic spatial intelligence. His early work includes building a teraflop-scale computer at Columbia and leading core software at Magic Leap during its formative years. A long-time OpenCV board member and advisor to government and industry, he blends deep technical authorship with executive leadership. Less obvious: he began university at 14, reflecting a lifelong pattern of accelerating complex projects from first principles to real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physics, Ph.D. Physics at Columbia UniversityUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Japanese
Github Skills (19)
image-processing10
computer-vision10
microphone9
voice-recognition9
opencv9
deep-learning9
react-native-voice9
python8
voice8
ios7
android7
speech-recognition7
react6
react-native6
streaming-audio4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
3P18XC/client-sdk-unity
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Official Unity SDK for LiveKit (DKAI Fork)
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
oreillymedia/Learning-OpenCV-3_examples
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 months
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