David Millard
Co-Founder, CEO @ Azalea Robotics (YC S24) | ex-Google(X) | ex-MSFT | ex-NASA Research Fellow
Experience
Career
2023Azalea Robotics
Chief Executive Officer · San Francisco Bay Area · 2023 – Present
2022NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Visiting Technologist · Pasadena, California, United States · 2022 – 2023
2020Google AI
Research Intern · New York City Metropolitan Area · 2020
2019Iron Ox
Roboticist Intern · San Carlos, CA · 2019
2015X, the moonshot factory
Software Engineer · Mountain View, CA · 2015 – 2018
2014Microsoft
Software Engineer · Redmond, WA · 2014 – 2015
Bio
David is a roboticist and software engineer with a background in mathematics and computer science. He previously worked as a software engineer at Google X on the Everyday Robots project, Microsoft, and at IronOx (W16). David's doctoral research focused on robotic systems manipulating non-rigid objects and was funded by a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship. He has published research with the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Ames Research Center, and Google DeepMind.