James Youngquist

Jim Youngquist has developed solutions in computer vision and robotics throughout his career. His work focuses on digitizing biological systems for machine understanding and enhancing human capabilities, particularly in high-tech solutions for safety-critical endeavors helping prevent loss of life.

As a PhD student at the University of Washington Sensor Systems Lab, Jim collaborated with computer scientists and electrical engineers on projects ranging from augmented reality to robotics to low power embedded computation. That work led him to build the early technology pipeline for Proprio. Since 2016 he has led the development of Proprio’s light field capture and render system from inception to deployable systems. He previously was the lead software architect at robotics startup Wibotic (co-founded by Dr. Josh Smith), for which he won the UW CSE Outstanding Engineer Award in 2015. Jim also has experience with advanced systems at Google and Intel. Jim was an Arabic translator in the Air Force in direct support of U.S. troops, and also speaks German.