Gary Bradski
Chief Science Officer at Lambda Labs
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Bradski is a pioneering computer vision and robotics leader with over a decade of experience building influential open-source infrastructure and commercial products from Stanford research to Silicon Valley startups. He founded OpenCV, shepherding it into the dominant vision library used worldwide, and has led or advised numerous ventures that were later acquired by major tech firms, including projects tied to the DARPA Grand Challenge and successful exits to Google, Intel, and Microsoft. As a hands-on engineer and executive he has served as CTO, Chief Scientific Officer, and board advisor across robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous platforms, translating cutting-edge research into practical systems and developer tools. He combines deep academic credentials—a PhD in AI and machine learning—with a knack for startup formation and productization, exemplified by example code contributions to Learning-OpenCV and platform work at Arraiy. Based in Palo Alto, he currently guides OpenCV and several robotics initiatives while investing in and advising next-generation perception companies. An underappreciated strength is his track record of aligning open-source ecosystems with commercial partnerships to accelerate adoption and impact.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS EECS electrical engineering computer science, BS EECS electrical engineering computer science at University of California, BerkeleyPhD AI machine learning neuro-modeling, PhD AI machine learning neuro-modeling at Boston University
Stackoverflow
583reputation
156kreached
17answers
2questions
opencv
top-5%
Github Skills (12)
computer-vision10
opencv10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
image-processing10
aruco6
rotation6
artificial-intelligence6
image-manipulation6
python6
game-engine6
pose6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
oreillymedia/Learning-OpenCV-3_examples
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:178 commits, 88 PRs, 125 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily contributed to the example code files related to image processing and computer vision. Their work involved implementing thresholding, image segmentation techniques, and object detection. The user utilized OpenCV functions for tasks such as calculating histograms, applying transforms, and implementing feature detection algorithms to process images and videos.
cbachhuber/opencv-wiki
Mar 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:456 commits in 3 years 8 months
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