Vince Gaydarzhiev, Alcatraz AI

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Vince Gaydarzhiev is the president and CPO of Alcatraz AI, an artificial intelligence company that employs facial authentication technology to create autonomous access control solutions for enterprises. Previously he worked at NVIDIA on the embedded multimedia systems that power Tesla Model S, BMW, and Audi. Later on, he joined Apple to lead the hardware prototype engineering team for iPad and iPhone, where FaceID was in development. This is where he saw a clear need for a better, future-proof access control platform not only for mobile but also for the physical world, autonomously authenticating employees and checking for tailgating, significantly increasing security without the expense of friction. Vince earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Central Florida and his MS from the University of California and his MS&E from Stanford University.