
Gary Bradski
Founder
OpenCV
Gary Bradski is a leading entrepreneur and researcher in computer vision and machine learning. He founded and is still president of the most popular computer vision library in the world, OpenCV http://opencv.org/. He organized the computer vision team for Stanley, the autonomous car that won the $2M DARPA Grand Challenge (now in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum), which in turn kicked off the autonomous driving industry. Bradski served as a visiting professor at Stanford University’s computer science department for seven years. He helped develop one of the first video search startups, VideoSurf (sold to Microsoft in 2011). He founded Industrial Perception, Inc. (sold to Google in 2013), after which he founded the Silicon Valley office of Magic Leap. He co-founded Arraiy (sold to Matterport in 2019). Bradski served as a technical fellow for Gauss Surgical (sold to Stryker in 2021). He invests and serves on the boards and advisory boards of over a dozen startups, and is a founder and chief scientist of OpenCV.ai, an AI + Computer vision contracting company, and co-founder of CVat.ai, an AI data labeling/training service, but spends most of his time as a founder and VP of farm-ng, a maker of modular autonomous electric tractors.