Vlad Branzoi has been building vision systems for robots, mixed reality, vehicles and a variety of other real-time systems for over 20 years, starting with his graduate work at Columbia University on programmable imaging and optical and light space manipulation. He spent 10 years working in cutting-edge vision systems R & D for DoD projects before moving to the commercial world. Since then he’s worked at several start-ups and large companies on robotic vision systems, from prototype to production and deployment. Vlad currently leads the sensors team at Agility Robotics, a leading humanoid robotics company.