Dr. Adrian Kaehler

Co-Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Adrian Kaehler is an executive leader, a scientist, engineer, investor, entrepreneur, and author with decades of experience in the development of cutting-edge technologies in the fields of robotics, system engineering, deep learning and machine learning, computer vision, human machine interface, numerical programming, computer algorithms, computer games and physics. He is best known for his involvement in several high-profile technology developments over the last 20 years. He holds over 60 patents, and his most highly cited work has almost 20,000 citations. From 1994 to 1998, while he was a physics Ph.D. student at Columbia University, he worked on the QCDSP supercomputer project, building one of the first teraflop-scale supercomputers ever. His team applied the supercomputer’s processing power to the study, through simulation, of some of the most difficult physics questions of our time. For this achievement, his team was awarded the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in 1998. After earning his Ph.D., he moved to Intel Corporation where he first begin work on OpenCV, an open-source computer vision software development library. He would later write two definitive books on the library and on computer vision. He has served as a Board Member of the OpenCV organization since 2011. He has also published a long list of scholarly works in his various topics of research interest. After he left Intel, he served as Vice President and Senior Scientist at Applied Minds Incorporated from 2003 to 2013. At Applied Minds, his work ranged across an exceptionally broad range of fields and problems. His responsibilities included the creation of new private, as well as government, business, but it was the execution phase of his projects which fed his passion for solving difficult problems and creating innovation. Much of his work was focused on robotics and unmanned systems. In this context, he applied both his own mathematical and practical software and scientific skills to the development of actual real-world systems, as well as the development of ancillary technologies which enabled robotic and unmanned systems as practical solutions to real world problems. In 2013, he pursued continuation of his work in computer vision technologies when he became Vice President of Special Projects at Magic Leap, the innovative augmented reality technology company that has garnered much press over its upcoming and long-awaited AR hardware. In about two years, the team raised $1.5 billion in venture capital funding for the project. He left Magic Leap in June 2016 but, while there, he worked on many very exciting aspects of the company’s proprietary technologies in AI and Augmented Reality hardware, algorithms, and software. In 2017, Dr. Kaehler was the founder and CEO of Giant.AI, Inc. Giant.AI is a Silicon Valley company, founded with the idea of bringing radical positive change to the world through the application of emerging artificial intelligence technologies to the field of robotics. Giant.AI, Inc. has been backed by some of the most legendary names in venture capital, including Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates, founder of the Microsoft corporation. Currently, Dr. Kaehler is co-Founder and co-CEO of Illium AI, a stealth mode start-up founded to unify the emerging capabilities of AI, robotics, and Augmented Reality, with the goal of forever changing how humans and machines coexist here on planet Earth.