Joel Huang

Head of AI | Product @ Bifrost

Singapore

About

Experience

  • Bifrost AI (5 yrs 3 mos)
    • Head of AI
      Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

      5yrs Founding Engineer → Lead → Head of AI. Some of the most important things I now work on: - Company and technology strategy - Product strategy, discovery and design - Iterating with customers from early discovery to post-adoption - AI/MLOps/CVOps/Robotics workflows and design - New verticals

    • Lead, AI and Product
      Oct 2021 - Nov 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      Conceptualized and built our hyperrealistic synthetic imagery platform (7-figure USD ARR) used by the world's most ambitious perception teams at Anduril, Havoc AI, Honda Research, Mitsubishi, Saronic, and more. Set up and trained a Forward Deployed AI team to embed and work closely with customers.

    • Founding AI Engineer
      Apr 2021 - Oct 2021 · 7 mos

      Designed techniques to make synthetic images ultra realistic. Proved these could be used to train and test AI models. Space and geospatial intelligence for NASA and the US Air Force.

  • Full-Stack AI Engineer at The N.1 Institute for Health
    Mar 2020 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

    While acquiring Masters degree, built on-prem AI-powered software for a Fortune 100 consumer giant.

  • Research Associate at NVIDIA
    Jan 2019 - Aug 2019 · 8 mos

    Built a "Deep Research" agent before it existed. Users preferred it 36% over competitors like Iris.ai and Frase.io

  • Co-Founder at OpenSUTD
    Apr 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

    In 2018, I started a open source repository for collective knowledge at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) on GitHub. Soon, other open-source enthusiasts joined in to contribute - growing the library to its current size of 86 projects. Over time, the community evolved into a decentralized organization, building tools and systems for events, community building, knowledge management, and open-source policy. OpenSUTD is now doing great in the hands of current students - check out the organization at https://opensutd.org.

  • AI Engineer, Vision at Singtel
    May 2018 - Aug 2018 · 4 mos

    2D-to-3D models and 3D reconstruction methods for video analytics.