Summary
Lawrence Neal is a perception engineer with 13 years of experience building production-grade computer vision, deep learning, and video infrastructure for robotics and immersive media. He’s blended research (open set learning, counterfactual reasoning, GANs) with product engineering—helping design scalable CV services at Google Nest, founding a health-tech startup, and advancing volumetric video pipelines at Lifecast. Now focused on off-road autonomy at Overland AI, he brings practical expertise in Python/C++, CUDA, ROS, and end-to-end ML systems from edge devices to cloud. Lawrence also consults on secure, self-hosted generative AI and has taught university-level ML and CV courses, reflecting a rare mix of academic depth and hands-on shipping experience. An owner of both low-level video/streaming work and high-level perception models, he excels at turning research ideas into robust, deployable systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Machine Learning), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Machine Learning) at Oregon State University