# W. Nicholas Greene

> Founder @ Stealth | MIT CSAIL PhD

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/wnicholasgreene

Engineer/researcher specializing in 3D perception, deep learning, and AI. Now building a new stealth AI startup!

## Work Experience
### Co-Founder @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2026 – Present
Stealth AI startup

### Senior Software Engineer @ Zoox
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led a cross-functional team that built a voxel-based occupancy network for short-range 3D perception in autonomous vehicles, fusing Lidar, Radar, and Camera data into a unified world model. Nearly eliminated false-positive detections in adverse weather. Managed the full development lifecycle across a team of 8+ engineers, from autolabeling pipelines to large-scale model training and production deployment.

### Co-Founder @ Strio AI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Built state estimation and perception systems for agricultural robots. Acquired by Zoox.

### Research Intern @ Niantic, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, CA
Developed robust place recognition and localization algorithms for large-scale augmented reality on mobile devices.

### Draper Fellow @ Draper
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Developed real-time, dense 3D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using passive monocular cameras for use on micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs).

### Assistant Technical Staff @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014
Contributed to research and development of passive sonar algorithms as an Assistant Technical Staff member in the Advanced Sensor Techniques Group


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Autonomous Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### BSE in Electrical Engineering
Princeton University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wnickgreene
- Website: https://wngreene.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-23