User:Chaud321/Steve Gu

Steve Gu is an entrepreneur, computer vision engineer, textbook author and the Co-founder and CEO of AiFi, a StartX accelerator company and automated retail technology company recognized as an Amazon Go rival by Fortune and CNBC. Gu co-launched AiFi in 2016 with his wife and co-founder Ying Zheng. Gu and AiFi are currently based in Santa Clara, California.

Early Life and Education
Gu has his PhD from Duke University in computer science. He received the Outstanding Ph.D. Preliminary Exam Award for his talk A Discriminative Constellation Model for Image Matching and Recognition, discussing how to connect the bag-of-words model in computer vision and the constellation model.

Career
Before founding AiFi Gu worked on the Google Glass at Google X in Advanced R&D, Rapid Technology Evaluation as well as as a sensor algorithms engineer at Apple on Force Touch technology. Gu is also an author of Black Technology, published in 2017.(need an article about the book to reference)

Awards
In 2020, Technology Innovators named Gu one of the Top 50 Artificial Intelligence CEOs. In 2018, Gu and AiFi won part of a $1 million prize shared among three startups in the Inception AI contest by Nvidia Corporation for the best enterprise solution.