Dr. Leaf Jiang is an engineering industry executive and leading authority on 3D vision systems. Leaf received his B.S., M.Eng, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at MIT, with a focus on optoelectronics, and then went on to MIT Lincoln Laboratories where he headed LiDAR R&D for the President’s Office and built coherent and direct detection LiDARs for the military. After Lincoln Labs, Dr. Jiang started and ran Alden Consulting, an engineering firm focused on tackling difficult scientific problems in optical communications, low-cost electronics, small robotic sensors, and handheld optical spectrometers. In 2017, as the autonomous vehicle industry spooled up, Leaf realized that his expertise in photonics-based 3D ranging systems could be put to good use, and he started NODAR.
Dr. Jiang lives in Concord, MA with his wife Meghan and 4 children and bikes to work every day, rain or shine.

NODAR is the leading provider of camera-based 3D vision software technology and is a crucial component in the development of ADAS and autonomous vehicles bringing safety, advanced performance, and cost-effectiveness to the automotive market. NODAR’s award-winning 3D vision platform delivers reliable, ultra-precise, and real-time 3D sensing at a long, providing LiDAR-quality at the price point of camera technology. NODAR uniquely provides long-range, high-density, high frame-rate 3D data and can detect any object as small as 10cm to 150m. Its high performance makes it an ideal solution for forward collision warning, path planning, automatic emergency braking, traffic jam assist, VRU detection, and parking valet. NODAR was founded in 2018 and based in Somerville, MA.