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Charles Chiau

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Chief Executive Officer at Bedrock Ocean Exploration
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Charles Chiau is the CEO, CTO, and Co-founder of Bedrock Ocean Exploration, a company revolutionizing seafloor mapping with proprietary autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). His career spans aerospace and maritime robotics, including designing avionics at SpaceX and developing manned submersibles at DeepFlight. He earned his B. S. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Driven by a desire to create impactful technology, Charles is passionate about robotics, exploration, and enabling future generations of engineers. His interests include flying radio-controlled aircraft and he is also a certified paragliding pilot, demonstrating a love for exploration in both the sea and the sky.

Unique Fact: He helped develop luxury personal submarines for high-profile individuals like Richard Branson while serving as CTO of DeepFlight.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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Ocean Mapping
As CEO of Bedrock, he leads the development of AUVs and a cloud platform to create the first complete, high-resolution map and database of the world's oceans.
Autonomous Systems
His career includes developing autonomous aviation systems at Reliable Robotics, AUVs at Bedrock, and avionics for the SpaceX Crew Dragon.
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Career

Work history

11-2023
Chief Executive Officer
Bedrock Ocean Exploration
4-2020
Chief Technology Officer
Bedrock Ocean Exploration
12-2018 - 3-2020
System Integration Engineer
Reliable Robotics Corporation
5-2018 - 12-2018
CTO
DeepFlight: High Performance Personal Submarines
12-2016 - 4-2018
Engineering Director
DeepFlight: High Performance Personal Submarines
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Education
2001 - 2005
B.S.
University of California, Berkeley
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Hillsdale High
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