Stephen Li at AOTU
Founder, CEO at Aotu
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Li is a veteran systems and OS engineer turned founder, currently building BrainFrame, an AI operating system that transforms camera networks into real-time perceptive systems. With decades of hands-on platform experience—spanning Motorola’s mobile OS era, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon stack (helping ship the world’s first Android device and contributing to billions of devices), Magic Leap’s mixed-reality OS, and launches with Mozilla and Amazon—he combines deep low-level expertise with product-scale delivery. He has founded and led research efforts in robotic vision and indoor autonomy, authored numerous patents in positioning and sensor fusion, and chairs hardware initiatives in the computer vision community. Based in San Francisco, he blends telecom-grade reliability and AI orchestration at scale, and his work often sits at the intersection of operating systems, perception, and real-world deployment rather than purely academic ML research.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Information Technology, Master of Science - MS, Information Technology at Northwestern University
Github Skills (26)
recommendation-system9
openvino9
diffusion-models9
nlp9
computer-vision9
speech-recognition8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
generative-ai8
ai8
inference8
stable-diffusion8
inference-engine8
transformers8
pytorch7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aotuai/brainframe-qt
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
🧠🖼️ The official desktop client for BrainFrame, made with Qt
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 85 pushes in 11 months
qt6pyside6qt4qt5gui
opencv/open_vision_capsules
Apr 2023 - Nov 2024
A set of libraries for encapsulating smart vision algorithms
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
computer-visionvision
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