Justin Baird

AI systems builder working at the intersection of multimodal AI, robotics, and developer ecosystems.

I build embodied AI systems combining computer vision, language models, diffusion models, robotics, and real-time signal processing to produce physical generative outputs. My research and experimental systems have resulted in NeurIPS publications, conference installations viewed by thousands, and open-source projects exploring human-AI creative collaboration.

My career has spanned launching developer platforms at Google — including inventing Underwater Street View and delivering early Android demos alongside Andy Rubin — to leading technology innovation at Accenture, Microsoft, and DHL across Asia Pacific. I collaborated with Google Brain’s Magenta team on a musical AI robot for the Sydney Opera House, and conceived Sophia the Robot’s AI singing voice for her duet with Jimmy Fallon.

Currently I'm co-founding Neuroflix (a generative AI video learning platform that won the Google Gemini Hackathon Singapore), pursuing doctoral research in Generative AI at Golden Gate University, and leading the Embodied Agents Lab at SQ Collective in Singapore — weekly hands-on sessions building AI agents that perceive, decide, and act in physical environments.

I’m focused on translating frontier AI research into developer reference implementations, technical demonstrations, and educational content that help engineers understand and build with emerging AI technologies.