Kelly Peng
Founder (Founding CEO & CTO) at Particle House (AKA Inventor Lab)
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolKelly Peng is a serial inventor-founder and technologist with 12 years of experience building cutting-edge AI, optics, and semiconductor products, currently serving as Founder and CEO/CTO of Kura, maker of the world’s widest-FOV fully see-through AR glasses and a custom TSMC‑taped-out microdisplay ASIC. She holds 12+ international and US patents and has authored 15+ papers across NeurIPS, CVPR and SIGGRAPH on topics from video generation and multimodal AI to model acceleration and brain‑machine interfaces. A two‑time CES Innovation Award winner and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum, Kelly combines deep hands‑on skills—from Linux kernel certification and FPGA/ASIC design to AI algorithm development—with rare hardware-to-software product leadership that has generated paid orders from 400+ companies including Fortune 500s and government labs. Notably, she built a garage nuclear fusor in college and developed a high‑accuracy EEG like/dislike classifier exhibited at the SF Science Museum, illustrating a penchant for audacious, interdisciplinary projects that bridge research and commercial impact.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Double major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyElectrical Engineering & Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Stanford UniversityOptical Lens Design in CodeV, Optical Lens Design in CodeV at SynopsysDulaney High SchoolXi'an Tieyi Middle & High SchoolsBachelor's degree (transferred) Quantrapule major in Computer Science; Mathematics; Neuroscience; Finance; Minor in ECE & Statistics, Bachelor's degree (transferred) Quantrapule major in Computer Science; Mathematics; Neuroscience; Finance; Minor in ECE & Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPractical Training & Certification Operating System and Linux Kernel Programming, Practical Training & Certification Operating System and Linux Kernel Programming at Linux FoundationHMD Optical System Design, HMD Optical System Design at SPIE
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (1)
discord1
Github contributions (5)
GameCracker/ARRR
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
GameCracker/brainControl
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 2 days
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