Summary
W Greene is a co-founder and engineer with 11 years of experience building 3D perception, SLAM, and AI systems for real-world robotics and autonomous vehicles. He led an 8+ engineer team at Zoox to develop a voxel-based occupancy network fusing LiDAR, radar, and camera data, dramatically reducing false positives in adverse weather and shepherding models from autolabeling pipelines to production. Earlier work includes founding an ag-robotics perception startup acquired by Zoox, research on large-scale AR localization at Niantic, and real-time monocular SLAM for micro-aerial vehicles, reflecting deep expertise across perception, state estimation, and sensor fusion. Based in San Francisco with a PhD-level background in autonomous systems from MIT and an EE degree from Princeton, he combines rigorous research roots with product-focused delivery. Now building a stealth AI startup, he brings an unusual blend of academic depth, hands-on systems engineering, and demonstrated startup exits.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aeronautics and Astronautics Autonomous Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Aeronautics and Astronautics Autonomous Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BSE Electrical Engineering, BSE Electrical Engineering at Princeton University