Dr. Edgar Riba earned his PhD in Computer Science from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)—where his dissertation bridged classical computer vision and deep learning for low-level tasks—and holds an MSc in Automatic Control and Robotics from UPC (Barcelona).
He recently joined Bonsai Robotics as a Staff Research Engineer, spearheading work in agentic AI and vision–language action models and tools tailored for educational and research robotics. Prior to this, Edgar built autonomy pipelines—from navigation stacks and robot drivers to edge‑ML deployment infrastructure—at startups including Farm‑ng, LightningAI, and Arraiy. His academic and research background includes over a year as a Research Scientist at IRI‑CSIC/UPC and more than two years at Arraiy, focusing on advanced vision and spatial AI.
Edgar is the founder and project lead of Kornia, a differentiable computer vision library for PyTorch with over 10,000 GitHub stars and 2 million+ monthly downloads. He also presides over its non-profit organization and is admin of Kornia’s Google Summer of Code program—mentoring students and coordinating major open-source contributions.
A dedicated community builder, Edgar served also on the OpenCV Foundation steering committee, mentors Google Summer of Code participants, and organizes workshops, hackathons, and conference talks. With eight peer-reviewed publications—including the foundational Kornia paper—he expertly bridges classical CV, deep learning, and real-world robotics to deliver robust, scalable autonomy solutions.