Gary Bradski

Dr. Bradski is currently Visiting Scholar at Stanford CS and Robotics Research Center; Founder & President of OpenCV.org (400M downloads in 2025), Science Advisor to Bonsai Robotics, and Partner at PerceptiveVC. PhD Neural Networks, Boston University 1993; BS EECS, UC Berkeley 1981. Consulting Professor at Stanford CS (2006-2012). Led the vision team for Stanley (the Robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge, now in the Smithsonian Museum in D.C.). Founder of Startups with exits to Google, Microsoft, Matterport, and Stryker. On several boards and advisorships. Active investor (I funded Lambda Labs for its first year, now $8B market cap). AWARDS: 2026 HPCA Test of Time Award for acceleration of machine learning kernels;  2026 HardTech award for advancing autonomous agriculture; 2021 ICCV Helmholtz Prize Test of Time Award for my “ORB” feature paper; 2014 IEEE PAMI prize for contributions to the field of computer vision. First funder and board member of Space-ng: nav system for Blue Ghost -- the first successful commercial lunar lander (Gary’s name is on the team plaque on the moon, Blue Ghost has a copy in the Smithsonian). Sits on 2 Boards, 4 Advisory roles, 80 Publications, 149 Patents.