Ping-Lin Chang

Department
R&D Department
Job Title
Co-founder and CEO
INSTRUCTION LANGUAGES
Mandarin, English

PERSONAL BIO

Ping-Lin holds a PhD in Robotic Vision from Imperial College London (2014), with a research focus on Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (VSLAM) and Machine Learning (ML) for Augmented Reality (AR) in image-guided surgery. His work resulted in papers in top-tier conference/journal publications, including MICCAI, TMI, RAL, and MRR. In 2015, he co-founded Umbo Computer Vision and held the CTO position, developing the company’s technical moat and leading the AI, back-end, front-end, and DevOps teams to build AI-first products for autonomous video security. These products have been sold in the US, EU, and Asia, helping business owners significantly reduce human operation costs and improve business scalability. In 2020, Ping-Lin co-founded Instill AI with Xiaofei Du to build the infrastructure for unstructured data ETL, making AI more accessible to all industry sectors.

WORK EXPERIENCE AND AWARDS

  • Umbo Computer Vision, Co-founder and CTO, Taiwan and UK (2014-2020)
  • CMIC Research Group at UCL, Postdoc, UK (2013-2014)
  • Augmented Reality Lab at Qualcomm Vienna, Intern, Austria (2012)

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

  • PhD in Robotic Vision, Imperial College London, UK
  • Master in Artificial Intelligence, University of Southampton, UK
  • Bachelor in Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, TW

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