Gary Bradski

Gary is founder & chairman of OpenCV.org (400M downloads in 2023). He was a professor at Stanford CS (2006-2012). Gary also ran the computer vision team for Stanley, the robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge, now in the Smithsonian Museum in D.C which started the modern autonomous driving industry. Gary has founded 5 Startups and a nonprofit: OpenCV.org and currently sits on several boards and advisorships. He is an active angel investor, his most recent exit was Lambda Labs 2024 2nd market in $1.5B C round where he was the first investor. Gary has about 100 patents and papers including several best papers. He won the 2014 IEEE PAMI prize for contributions to the field of computer vision and won the 2021 CCV Helmholtz Prize Test of Time Award for his “ORB” paper.