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Neil is a leading robotics researcher. At Columbia and Stanford, he was advised by Prof. Shuran Song, Prof. Jiajun Wu, and was part of the Vision & Learning Lab led by Prof. Fei-Fei Li. Neil holds patents on multi-modal perception and helped build Apple Vision Pro. Neil left his PhD at Berkeley to start Verne Robotics.
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