San Francisco, California, United States
Experienced Co-Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Research and Development (R&D), Physics, Computer Science, Computer Vision, and Artificial Intelligence. Strong entrepreneurship professional graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York. Richard Mark Friedhoff is a computer scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, and expert on innovation management, especially for inventor-founded companies. His basic discoveries in vision science have resulted in more than 50 US patents, and numerous other patents in various territories around the world. His research interests include human color vision, perceptual and cognitive aspects of the graphical user interface, stereoscopic inkjet printing, digital photography, and computer vision including object recognition, face recognition, assisted and autonomous driving, and machine learning. Over the course of his career, he raised more than $70M for various projects, and founded three companies including, most recently, Tandent Vision Science, Inc., an innovator in computer vision, where from 2005 until early 2019, when the company was acquired, he was the founder, CEO, and Chief Science Officer. He is the author of two books on visual computing, and has been a longterm advisor to some of the most impactful inventors in US industrial history.