JONAS P. CLEVELAND
CEO/ CTO at COSY
29 years old
In 2012, Cleveland founded COSY, a firm that uses advanced artificial intelligence and computer vision to allow mobile devices to accurately position themselves indoors, for accuracy GPS can't achieve. The company enables Walgreens and other retailers to use software via commercially-available robots to survey inventory overnight -- it's less expensive, more accurate and far more frequent than employees can count wares. At COSY, Cleveland develops "next generation" artificial intelligence techniques and robot vision approaches. The company's semantic labeling engine lets a robot classify over 10,000 different objects, and partners with several retailers nationwide. The same technology runs on a smartphone -- using its camera, it gives turn-by-turn directions to a blind person searching for products in the store. In his free time, Cleveland mentors several middle-school and high-school students with the goal of getting more women and minorities into STEM fields.