W. Nicholas Greene

Co-Founder

Stealth Startup

Feb 2026 – Present

Stealth AI startup.

Senior Software Engineer

Zoox

Mar 2022 – Feb 2026 · San Francisco Bay Area

Led a cross-functional team that built a voxel-based occupancy network for short-range 3D perception in autonomous vehicles, fusing Lidar, Radar, and Camera data into a unified world model. Nearly eliminated false-positive detections in adverse weather. Managed the full development lifecycle across a team of 8+ engineers, from autolabeling pipelines to large-scale model training and production deployment.

Co-Founder

Strio AI

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · Cambridge, MA

Built state estimation and perception systems for agricultural robots. Acquired by Zoox.

[  Strio.AI joins Zoox  ]

Research Intern

Niantic, Inc.

Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 · Sunnyvale, CA

Developed robust place recognition and localization algorithms for large-scale augmented reality on mobile devices.

Draper Fellow

Draper

Sep 2014 – Sep 2016

Developed real-time, dense 3D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) using passive monocular cameras for use on micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs).

Assistant Technical Staff

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Oct 2010 – Jul 2014 · Greater Boston

Contributed to research and development of passive sonar algorithms in the Advanced Sensor Techniques Group.