Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO at Wayve
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kendall is a founder-CEO and PhD-trained roboticist with nine years of experience building embodied AI systems, currently leading Wayve to deploy a next-generation, data-driven autonomous driving stack worldwide. Combining deep learning research from a Cambridge fellowship with hands-on product work at Skydio and advisory experience from Scape (acquired by Facebook), he blends academic rigor with rapid prototype-to-scale execution. He believes autonomy at scale requires a lean sensor and compute stack and has helped raise $1.3B to assemble an interdisciplinary team across London, Silicon Valley and Vancouver. A proud Kiwi and adventurous technologist, Alex mixes field-tested experimentation (including drone testing on mountain trails) with strategic fundraising and hiring to turn cutting-edge CV research into deployed vehicles.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BE(Hons.) Mechatronics Engineering, BE(Hons.) Mechatronics Engineering at The University of AucklandDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Deep Learning Computer Vision and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Deep Learning Computer Vision and Robotics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (44)
depth-estimation10
benchmark10
toolbox10
architecture10
optical-flow10
depth10
matching9
stereo9
kitti9
3d-reconstruction8
backbone8
slam8
localization8
siggraph8
edge-detection7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DeepMotionAIResearch/DenseMatchingBenchmark
Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
Dense Matching Benchmark
Contributions:30 commits, 22 pushes, 31 comments in 1 year 10 months
architecturestereo-matchingdepth-estimationoptical-flowtoolbox
youmi-zym/youmi-zym.github.io
Apr 2021 - Mar 2026
Alex Kendall's Research Website
Contributions:140 pushes in 5 years
research-websitealex
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