Brian Clipp
Senior Principal Engineer, Team Lead Manager at Motional
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Clipp is a Senior Principal Engineer and team lead who combines deep research expertise in computer vision and AI with hands-on program leadership across defense and commercial sectors. With a PhD and over a decade building real-time 3D vision, SLAM, hyperspectral imaging, and vision-and-language systems, he has led multi-university consortia and secured more than $20M in funded research while managing ~15 FTEs and numerous subcontractors. He has practical product impact too—commercialized stockpile measurement systems with three U.S. patents and contributed backend fixes and tools to the widely used TeleSculptor aerial photogrammetry project. Brian is active in the community as an organizer, area chair, and reviewer for top conferences (CVPR, WACV, ICCV, ECCV), and he blends agile research strategy with scientific rigor to deliver operational AI for customers with demanding, multidisciplinary problems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at Clemson UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (4)
photogrammetry10
cprogramming-language10
c-language10
computer-vision9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/TeleSculptor
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
TeleSculptor: Aerial Photogrammetry Application powered by KWIVER
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the `maptk` directory, fixing bugs and adding features related to camera pose, intrinsic parameters, and feature tracking. They modified `local_geo_cs.cxx` to incorporate camera rotation from Euler angles in metadata. Additionally, the user added a new tool, `TriangulateTool.cxx`, and made modifications to `gui/MainWindow.cxx` and related files to improve the display and management of camera and feature data. Their work also includes incorporating a Sprokit feature tracker.
kitwarephotogrammetryc-plus-plusimage-processingaerial-imagery
bclipp-kitware/fletch
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
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