Rareș Ambruș
Co-Founder & Head Of AI at Walden Robotics
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolRareș Ambruș is a research-driven AI leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building computer vision and robotics systems across industry and academia. Currently Co-Founder and Head of AI at a stealth startup in Los Altos, he previously led computer vision research at Toyota Research Institute, focusing on visual representations for embodied applications like autonomous driving and robotics. His background spans end-to-end systems—from semantic segmentation of point clouds at Bosch to vehicle autonomy projects and AR systems for ESA—backed by a PhD in Computer Science from KTH and an MSc in Robotics. Known for bridging deep research with product-focused execution, he scales novel perception models into real-world, safety-critical domains. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic scientist who pairs rigorous experimentation with system-level engineering, often surfacing elegant solutions to messy integration problems. He combines an international engineering upbringing with startup grit in the Bay Area, making him adept at turning academic advances into deployable AI.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMSc, Smart Systems (Robotics), MSc, Smart Systems (Robotics) at Jacobs University BremenColegiul National "Moise Nicoara"
English, Romanian, French
Github Skills (54)
depth-estimation10
visualization10
robot10
3d10
blender9
3d-reconstruction8
autonomous-driving8
ros8
mongodb8
segmentation8
synthetic8
machine-learning8
synthetic-data8
simulation8
rendering8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
strands-project/strands_3d_mapping
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Tools for building 3D maps and using these maps for navigation and visualization.
Contributions:594 commits, 50 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 1 month
3dvisualization
TRI-ML/DDAD
May 2020 - May 2021
Dense Depth for Autonomous Driving (DDAD) dataset.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 5 commits in 1 year
autonomous-driving
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