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Leo (Lei) Kang

Founder

Leo (Lei) Kang

Founder & CEO, viovio

I have spent my career getting live video and AI decisions to work in the real world: WebRTC running daily on Cruise’s autonomous vehicles, Nuro’s teleoperation stack, and HiHome, an AI system that helps people judge a home. viovio brings those together for hands-on work: a first-person view of the person doing the job, and a copilot that finds the step they need, out loud and mid-task.

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Experience

  1. 2026–

    viovio · Founder & CEO

    Building an AI copilot for hands-on work on smart glasses: one first-person demonstration streamed live to the room, recorded as an ordered, timestamped record, and searchable out loud, mid-task. Running in two pilot programs.

  2. 2020–26

    Nuro · Tech Lead Manager, Teleoperation

    Built and led the teleoperation infrastructure team: real-time video, GPU/CPU optimization, cloud and tooling for production autonomous vehicles. Unified LiveKit + WebRTC so commercial partners could operate the fleet, cutting bandwidth from 3 Mbps to 120 kbps and latency from 400 ms to 150 ms.

  3. 2024–

    HiHome AI · Founder

    Took an AI decision system for home buyers from 0 to 1 on the web, iOS and Android: a multi-agent pipeline that reads disclosures, reasons about risk and checks its own output with evaluation agents. $40K+ in revenue and a 70% conversion rate at open houses.

  4. 2019–20

    Flivery · Co-founder

    Full-stack drone software with autonomous payload tracking and pickup. Backed by Alchemist Accelerator and angel investors.

  5. 2018–19

    Cruise · Senior Software Engineer

    Ported WebRTC from Chrome into the autonomous vehicle stack for video, audio and data: proof of concept in three months, then running daily on 100+ vehicles.

  6. 2015–17

    Google · Microsoft Research · Qualcomm · Internships

    Data-center topology optimization in production at Google, LTE-U and Wi-Fi coexistence research at Microsoft Research Cambridge, and a build-change search tool at Qualcomm. A return offer from each.

Research & recognition

10+papers in distributed systems and video streaming
GooglePhD Fellow in Mobile Computing, 2016–2018
Ph.D.Computer Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Published at MobiCom, HotMobile, ICDCS and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems; Best Poster Award at ACM HotMobile 2015; reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison2012–2018
  • M.Phil., Computer ScienceHong Kong University of Science and Technology