Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization 
GelSight
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Male
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A true interdisciplinary researcher, having worked in areas as diverse as computer vision, computer graphics, forensics, audio compression, audio synthesis, and music theory. Always seeking new challenges, Kimo is excited to lead the effort to commercialize GelSight, which he helped develop during his postdoc at MIT. Kimo started his academic
career with undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Music Theory from the University of New Hampshire. He continued his education at Dartmouth College, where he earned a Master's degree in Electro-Acoustic Music and later a Ph.D. in Computer Science. His doctoral work, under Professor Hany Farid, focused on detecting image manipulation through inconsistencies in illumination and optical aberrations. As a postdoc, then research scientist, at MIT, he published numerous papers in top computer vision and graphics venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and SIGGRAPH.
