About
Justin Baird
FRSA, Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts
AI systems builder and technology executive with 25+ years translating frontier technology into products, platforms, and ecosystems that reach real-world adoption.
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, through 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.
Areas of Work
Embodied AI & Robotics
Building robotic systems that combine computer vision, language models, diffusion models, and real-time signal processing to produce physical generative outputs.
Generative & Multimodal AI
Developing cross-modal AI pipelines for Synthaesthetic Art, translating between sound, image, and motion through generative models and robotic systems.
Developer Ecosystems
Translating frontier AI research into developer reference implementations, technical demonstrations, and educational content that help engineers build with emerging AI technologies.
AI Research & Publications
NeurIPS and ACM HAI published research exploring human-machine creative collaboration, real-time interactive systems, and cross-modal generative AI.
Education
Patents
Awards & Recognition
Advisory, Boards & Media
Experience
Generative AI platform converting enterprise knowledge into dynamic video learning. Won the Google Gemini Hackathon Singapore; bootstrapped and now post-revenue with direct customers and partnerships.
Doctorate in Emerging Technologies researching human-machine creative collaboration, embodied AI, and multimodal generative systems.
AI music-therapy digital therapeutic designed to predict and prevent agitation in dementia patients through wearable biometrics and adaptive music. Now in clinical trials across Australia.
Advises on global go-to-market and developer-ecosystem adoption for Apptest.ai's agentic AI software-testing platform.
Embodied-AI and robotics lab in Singapore. Built BCI-controlled robotic painting, Synthaesthetic Art, and the Reachy Rap Battle, with live demonstrations at AI.Engineer, SuperAI, and Google I/O.
Climate-tech platform for carbon projects and markets. Architected Verity Carbon, a web3-enabled digital MRV platform, with mobile data-authentication technology now published as a patent application in India and via ARIPO.
Managed C-level technology relationships for startups, scale-ups, and emerging unicorns across APAC, driving Azure and AI adoption and technical enablement.
Built advanced analytics, data science, and AI capability across APAC logistics. Led a world-first quantum-computing solution to the logistics bin-packing problem (Honeywell H1, with Cambridge Quantum) and a live space-logistics session with NASA's Artemis program.
Led technology at experience agency Imagination and partnered at Mosaic. At Hanson Robotics, conceived Sophia the Robot's AI text-to-singing voice, featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Head of Emerging Technology APAC. Developed and launched Accenture Liquid Studios across seven markets (200+ engagements in FY17) and served as APAC lead keynote speaker for Accenture Technology Vision.
Built distributed engineering and data-science teams across four countries and generated four patent applications. Supported the ASX listing, the first Silicon Valley company to list on the ASX, and a $40M AUD institutional placement (about $50M AUD raised in total).
Co-founded Jumptank, an innovation practice operating across 29 agencies in ANZ, building IP, software, and physical products, and co-created the Fuse content platform.
Launched YouTube portals and monetization across APAC and supported the first Android devices in the region. Invented and patented Underwater Street View. Built Show Your Vote with the UNFCCC (184 countries, 5.67M users) and was a founding member of Google's Global Creative Council.
Led software and hardware engineering teams and product strategy for high-performance professional-audio platforms across Australia and the US.
Analog and digital signal processing, computational acoustics, and loudspeaker measurement in Berkeley, California. Co-authored AES papers and co-developed patented loudspeaker methods (US 6,081,602).