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Leaf Jiang

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Founder at NODAR

Concord, Massachusetts, United States

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About

Leaf Jiang is the founder and CEO of NODAR, a venture-backed company developing the Hammerhead Vision System, a wide-baseline stereo vision technology for autonomous applications. Before founding NODAR, he spent 12 years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he co-developed coherent photon-counting LiDAR, and earlier worked at Bell Labs on high-speed analog-to-digital converters. He was educated at MIT and held an NSF Fellowship.

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New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Menlo Park · $200K – $40M checks · since 2026Rhapsody Venture PartnersCambridge · $500K – $2M checks · since 2022U.S. Armysince 2021

Experience

  1. NODARCEO and Foundercurrent2017 — presentBoston, Massachusetts
  2. Forbes Technology CouncilOfficial Membercurrent2022 — present
  3. Leaf Alden Consulting GroupFounder and President2015 — 2017Lexington, MA
  4. MIT Lincoln LaboratoryAssociate Technology Officer2014 — 2015Lexington, MA
  5. MIT Lincoln LaboratoryTechnical Staff2002 — 2014
  6. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPostdoctoral Associate2002Cambridge, MA
  7. Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHIResearch Associate1998Berlin, Germany
  8. Lucent Technologies, Bell LaboratoriesReseach Associate1996 — 1997New Jersey

Skills & more

Optics18Laser6Electro-optics6Nonlinear Optics4Adaptive Optics3Laser Physics5Physics5Signal Processing5Image Processing3Simulations11Fourier Optics1LiDAR2
+12 moreFPGACNC Programming3D PrintingCAD/CAMCADAltium DesignerXilinxxilinx iseMatlabC++SolidWorksC

Languages German · Spanish

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Who is Leaf Jiang?
Leaf Jiang is the founder and CEO of NODAR, a venture-backed company developing the Hammerhead Vision System, a wide-baseline stereo vision technology for autonomous applications. Before founding NODAR, he spent 12 years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he co-developed coherent photon-counting LiDAR, and earlier worked at Bell Labs on high-speed analog-to-digital converters. He was educated at MIT and held an NSF Fellowship.
Where does Leaf Jiang work?
Leaf Jiang is Founder of NODAR.
What companies did Leaf Jiang found?
Leaf Jiang founded NODAR.
Where did Leaf Jiang go to school?
Leaf Jiang studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).

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