Kaiwen Yuan
Co-Founder, Head Of Engineering at Safari AI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolKaiwen Yuan is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 11 years building AI, robotics, and full-stack systems, currently co-founding and heading engineering at Safari AI in Vancouver. He led perception, prediction, and ML efforts as a founding team member of Serve Robotics (spun out of Uber/Postmates) and has repeatedly moved research into production across robotics and sensor-driven products. Kaiwen combines PhD-level research experience in AI and robotics with hands-on startup execution—shipping everything from embedded sensor systems to cloud microservices and ML pipelines. He also invests in and advises early-stage AI, sensor, and robotics startups, and previously ran a bespoke engineering studio delivering end-to-end MVPs for multiple seed-stage companies. Less obvious: his background spans journalism, product marketing, and mechatronics, giving him a rare blend of storytelling, customer-focused product design, and low-level hardware-software integration.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityExchange, Exchange at National Tsing Hua University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (178)
benchmark10
python10
toolbox10
pose10
human-pose-estimation10
machine-vision10
deep-learning10
instance-segmentation10
vision-transformer10
faster-rcnn10
backbone10
glip10
face10
caffe10
openmmlab10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KleinYuan/Caffe2-iOS
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 55 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
caffe2iosallowedreal-time
KleinYuan/LiCaS3
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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