Kordel France

Kordel France is a principal AI engineer at Toyota where he leads development for various AI & robotics applications among the manufacturing and quality control groups. He is a technologist, technical leader, and multi-disciplined engineer teaching machines to solve complex problems through AI. He has worked in various capacities as an engineer designing sensors for products such as drones and robots, and coding scalable AI systems for products like voice assistants and vision-language models. Prior to his position at Toyota, he founded a small company that invented a new type of sensor enabling robots to navigate by scent. Here, he led engineering, product design, and business development that enabled the company to quickly achieve revenue and gave him a much larger appreciation for the complexities of manufacturing at scale. Fascinated by the math behind markets, Kordel considers himself an “amateur quant” and spends most of his spare time coding algorithmic trading strategies.