Summary
Tao Liang is a seasoned technology generalist and engineering leader with 25 years of experience building companies, teams, and award-winning products across cloud and embedded domains. Currently Fellow for SDV Software Architecture at 42dot, he previously led Mojo Vision’s smart contact lens group as VP of Engineering, owning P&L, hardware, software, and an end-to-end “Eye OS” for AR. He has repeatedly built teams and engineering practices from the ground up—spanning real-time systems, infotainment, CV/ML, and safety-critical embedded middleware—and brought applied AI/ML into production vehicle and consumer AR products. Tao combines deep academic training (PhD/MS in Engineering Design from Stanford) with hands-on system design, simulators, and infrastructure experience, enabling rapid translation from research to shipping products. Not obvious from titles: he has a strong track record of integrating optics, sensors, DSP/GPU/NPU acceleration, and voice interfaces to create immersive, safety-conscious user experiences. Based in Palo Alto, he excels at aligning business needs with technical roadmaps and mentoring teams through complex, multidisciplinary engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Engineering Design, Ph.D. Engineering Design at Stanford University School of Engineering
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Mechanical Engineering at Drexel University College of Engineering
English, Chinese, Chinese