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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Experience
- NODARCEO and Foundercurrent2017 — presentBoston, Massachusetts
- Forbes Technology CouncilOfficial Membercurrent2022 — present
- Leaf Alden Consulting GroupFounder and President2015 — 2017Lexington, MA
- MIT Lincoln LaboratoryAssociate Technology Officer2014 — 2015Lexington, MA
- MIT Lincoln LaboratoryTechnical Staff2002 — 2014
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPostdoctoral Associate2002Cambridge, MA
- Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHIResearch Associate1998Berlin, Germany
- Lucent Technologies, Bell LaboratoriesReseach Associate1996 — 1997New Jersey
Skills & more
Optics18Laser6Electro-optics6Nonlinear Optics4Adaptive Optics3Laser Physics5Physics5Signal Processing5Image Processing3Simulations11Fourier Optics1LiDAR2
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FPGACNC Programming3D PrintingCAD/CAMCADAltium DesignerXilinxxilinx iseMatlabC++SolidWorksCLanguages 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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