Z-Cafe: COMPUTER VISION: LIDAR VS. DEPTH CAMERA

Agenda:

08:00 AM - 08:30 AM：Breakfast & Networking

08:30 AM - 09:15 AM：Computer Vision

Intro + Open Discussion

09:15 AM - 10:00 AM：Networking

Speaker:

NODAR

Leaf Jiang, CEO & Founder

Leaf Jiang is an engineering industry executive with a proven track record for solving Fortune 500s' toughest problems. Leaf has won 7 prestigious engineering awards, is a top MIT Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate, and has demonstrated success at leading, planning, coordinating, strategizing, and resolving engineering challenges. Leaf has 5 patents, 32 academic publications, served as an expert witness in an optoelectronics patent case, and is a member of the Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Phi Beta Kappa Engineering Honor Societies. Leaf is a recognized expert in lidar systems and has designed and built coherent and direct detection lidars for 12 years while he was at MIT Lincoln Laboratories.

BlinkAI

Bo Zhu, Cofounder & CTO

10+ years machine learning and imaging physics experience

Bo Zhu is the CTO of BlinkAI, a spin-off from imaging research he developed as a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard. He received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from MIT. At BlinkAI, he leads the development of machine learning techniques to accelerate high-fidelity CMOS image acquisition and reconstruction in difficult environments using efficient inference that can be deployed on mobile and embedded systems.