Radu Rusu
Managing Partner at Exponential
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRadu Rusu is a veteran deep-tech founder and investor with over 20 years of experience building and scaling 3D computer vision, robotics, and AI ventures from Silicon Valley. As CEO and co-founder who led Fyusion through product growth and a merger into Cox, and now Managing Partner at Exponential, he blends hands-on research pedigree (PhD, TUM) with venture and board-level leadership. He created and architected the widely used Point Cloud Library (PCL), contributing core algorithms and API designs that helped standardize 3D perception in robotics and industry. An active angel investor, advisor, and LP, he connects early-stage science-heavy startups to strategic corporate channels across the Cox family. Notably, his background spans academia, open-source stewardship, and commercial productization—giving him rare fluency across research, engineering, and go-to-market execution.
20 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Dr. Rer. Nat.), Computer Science, PhD (Dr. Rer. Nat.), Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (19)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PointCloudLibrary/pcl
Mar 2011 - May 2020
Point Cloud Library (PCL)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:3616 commits, 7 pushes, 7 comments in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Radu contributed to the Point Cloud Library (PCL), a C++ library for processing 3D point cloud data. Their work involved improving the functionality of existing tools and APIs, with the changes demonstrating an understanding of point cloud data structures, algorithm optimization, and working knowledge of Eigen's linear algebra library. Further changes suggest the user was involved with the design of the API for surface reconstruction algorithms and implementing improvements and bug fixes to core algorithms like ICP and edge detection.
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PointCloudLibrary/blog
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
RST files and images for the pointclouds.org blog
Contributions:33 commits in 7 months
pointcloudsorg-blogrst
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