Jay Wong
Founder & CEO at Luminous
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Wong is a robotics founder and CEO with 13 years of hands-on experience building robots and automation for defense, research institutions, and Fortune 50 supply chains. He co-founded Southie Autonomy to deliver fully integrated robotic packaging lines at scale and now leads Luminous to deploy robot fleets that accelerate solar and energy infrastructure for AI data centers and decarbonization. His background spans NASA, Draper (where he launched a cloud robotics R&D initiative), and visiting scientist roles at MIT and Harvard, blending deep research (ML, control, perception) with product-grade systems engineering. A two-time Outstanding Achievement awardee and Bay State Fellow from UMass Amherst, he pairs academic rigor (MS with 4.0) with decade-plus entrepreneurship. Unusually, he has taken robotics from FIRST competitions to enterprise deployments, demonstrating an ability to scale from prototype to fleet operations while focusing all resources on solving infrastructure at planetary scale.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (51)
aruco10
marker10
detector10
robot10
aruco-marker-detection10
grasp9
robotics9
vui9
ros9
singing8
calibration8
pose7
sensor7
voice-assistant7
voice7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jaymwong/seline
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
6-DOF eye-hand pose estimation and calibration for robotic systems with sufficiently good kinematics.
Contributions:77 commits, 24 PRs, 51 pushes in 6 months
manipulationroboticskinematicspybulletpose-estimation
SouthieAutonomy/motoman
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
ROS-Industrial Motoman meta-package (http://wiki.ros.org/motoman)
Contributions:4 PRs, 53 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
roboticsmeta-packageros2metaindustrial
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