Dr. Gary Rost Bradski is a Senior Scientist at Willow Garage. Gary leverages his experience in robotics, machine learning and computer vision research at Stanford University's AI Lab to Willow Garage's personal robot and the autonomous vehicle programs.

Dr. Bradski holds a joint appointment as Consulting Professor in Stanford University's Computer Sciences Department and has more than 50 publications, along with 13 issued patents and 18 pending. He brings more than 15 years of research and robotics experience to Willow Garage.

Previously responsible for the Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV) that is used globally in research, government and commercial applications, Dr. Bradski has also been responsible for the open source statistical Machine Learning Library and the Probabilistic Network Library. More recently Dr. Bradski led the vision team for Stanley, the Stanford robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous race in 2005 and most recently helped found the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR) project under the leadership of Professor Andrew Ng.