Brendan Dickinson is a General Partner at Canaan at Canaan. He possess expertise in start ups, venture capital, financial modeling, leadership, entrepreneurship and 8 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I have known Brendan since Fall 2005, when he matriculated in the Masters program in Computer Science at Brown University. During his three semesters at Brown, I had the pleasure of interacting with Brendan in several capacities: as an instructor in my robotics course, advisor for his research project, and collaborator on our robot soccer efforts. Brendan excelled in each of these efforts and was a true asset to our graduate program and my research group. Brendan's leadership and dedication was invaluable in helping me as a young Assistant Professor to build my research group into an organization of significance in robotics."