2x founder

Ian Dewancker

Senior FDE, Frontier AI @ Google Cloud

Co-founder

SBX Robotics· Winter 2021 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @idewanck

2026Senior FDE, Frontier AI, Google Cloud· Google

Founder · since 2020

Company

Google

Role

Senior FDE, Frontier AI, Google Cloud

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

Toronto, ON

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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SBX Robotics

Synthetic data for better vision.

Winter 2021

Experience

Career

Google
Senior FDE, Frontier AI, Google Cloud · Toronto, ON · 2026 – Present
2026
Distributional
Co-founder
Co-founder and Director, Applied AI · Toronto, ON · 2023 – 2026
2023
SBX Robotics
Co-founder
Co-founder and CEO · Toronto, ON · 2020 – 2023
2020
Kindred.ai
Senior Machine Learning Researcher · Toronto, Canada Area · 2018 – 2020
2018
Uber Advanced Technologies Group
Machine Learning Engineer · Greater Pittsburgh Region · 2017 – 2018
2017
SigOpt
Research Engineer · San Francisco · 2015 – 2016
2015
Yelp
Search and Data Mining Engineer · San Francisco · 2014 – 2015
2014
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
Research Intern · Lausanne Area, Switzerland · 2011
2011
The Hospital for Sick Children
Research Intern · Toronto, Canada Area · 2010
2010
Microsoft
Software Development Engineer Intern · Redmond, Washington · 2010
2010
Altera
Software Engineering Intern · Toronto, Canada Area · 2008
2008

Bio

Led applied research projects at Uber ATG, Kindred AI, and SigOpt focusing on computer vision, robotics, and optimization for machine learning. MSc in CS from UBC (2013), Engineering at Waterloo (2011).