Adrien Gaidon
Co-Founder And Chief Strategy Officer
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdrien Gaidon is a machine learning researcher and operator with nine years of experience building ML foundations for embodied intelligence, robotics, and computer vision. He has led and grown ML teams at Toyota Research Institute, advised its CEO, and now splits time between founding a Physical AI startup, investing at Calibrate Ventures, and teaching CS at Stanford. His work spans research, production ML for safety-critical systems, and sim-to-real techniques like differentiable rendering and self-supervised learning. Comfortable at the intersection of academia, industry, and venture, he combines a PhD-level research pedigree with hands-on product delivery on public roads and in robotic settings. An understated signal of his impact is sustained external leadership—dozens of publications, invited talks, and collaborative programs with top labs—while actively shaping early-stage deep-tech companies from Palo Alto.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics and Computer Science at Université Grenoble AlpesEngineer's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Engineer's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble / ENSIMAGMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Artificial Intelligence at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
English, French, German
Github Skills (13)
depth-estimation9
data-management7
computer-vision7
pytorch6
machine-learning6
segmentation6
autonomous-driving6
lidar5
deep-learning5
3d-object-detection5
rendering3
3d2
visualization1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ToyotaResearchInstitute/whatthefot
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
AdrienGaidon-TRI/dotfiles
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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