Full Self-Driving (FSD)
Worked on 3D perception and E2E safety for FSD releases to both customer and Robotaxi fleets, contributing to both online models shipped to cars and offline data pipelines scaling to 20K GPUs.
Tesla 2022–2025
I'm currently a Principal Research Scientist in Sanja Fidler's Spatial Intelligence Lab at NVIDIA, working on generative world simulation for closed-loop training of physical AI agents. Before NVIDIA, I worked on autonomous driving at Tesla Autopilot and on computational photography in Marc Levoy's Emerging Products Group at Adobe. I did my Ph.D. in computer vision and computer graphics with Bill Freeman at MIT CSAIL. While at MIT, I also received mentorship from Jon Barron via internships at Google Research. My dissertation Shape, Reflectance, and Illumination From Appearance studies inverse rendering and its applications, including 3D shape reconstruction and free-viewpoint relighting. Here is a more formal bio.
October 2025: We are looking for research interns at NVIDIA. Email me!
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Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Tesla Autopilot, 2022–2025 |
Computer Scientist, Adobe Emerging Products Group, 2021–2022 |
Student Researcher, Google Research, 2019–2021, w/ Yun-Ta Tsai & Jon Barron |
Ph.D., MIT CSAIL , 2016–2021, w/ Bill Freeman |
Jul. 2025 | Joined Sanja Fidler's Spatial Intelligence Lab at NVIDIA. |
Jun. 2025 | Robotaxi launched in Austin, TX. |
Sep. 2024 | Helped ship Actually Smart Summon to FSD customers. |
Mar. 2024 | Shipped Autopark to FSD customers. |
Dec. 2023 | Shipped High-Fidelity Park Assist to all Tesla cars. |
Apr. 2023 | DiffusionRig (personalized face editing) released for CVPR 2023. |
Oct. 2022 | Joined Tesla Autopilot to work on 3D perception. |
Oct. 2021 | Joined Marc Levoy's Adobe Emerging Products Group to work on computational photography. |
Aug. 2021 | Graduated from MIT (doctoral dissertation). |
Aug. 2021 | NeRFactor conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia. |
Dec. 2020 | Neural Light Transport (NLT) accepted to TOG, to be presented at SIGGRAPH in August 2021. |
Apr. 2019 | MoSculp on exhibition in the MIT Museum (photos). |
Jan. 2019 | Awarded Snap Research Fellowship. |
Dec. 2018 | Oral presentation of GenRe at NeurIPS. |
Sep. 2018 | MoSculp featured as 9/19 MIT Homepage and covered by Forbes, BBC, etc. |
Oct. 2016 | Paper on Bayesian modeling of Alzheimer's disease heterogeneity out in PNAS and covered by Psychology Today, MGH/HMS, etc. |
May 2016 | Work on Alzheimer's disease subtypes awarded the Magna Cum Laude Award and an oral presentation at ISMRM 2016. |
* indicates equal contribution.
Non-Refereed Notes & Side Projects
NeurIPS 2025, ICLR 2025, ICCV 2025, CVPR 2025, SIGGRAPH 2024, NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2024, EG 2024, ECCV 2024, CVPR 2024, SIGGRAPH Asia 2023, NeurIPS 2023, EG 2023, CVPR 2023, SIGGRAPH Asia 2022, NeurIPS 2022, ICML 2022, ICLR 2022, ECCV 2022, CVPR 2022, SIGGRAPH Asia 2021, NeurIPS 2021, MMA 2021, ICLR 2021, ICCV 2021, CVPR 2021, PG 2020, NeurIPS 2020, ECCV 2020, CVPR 2020, AAAI 2020, MM 2019, ICML 2019, ICCV 2019, GLOBECOM 2018
IJCV, TCSVT, TPAMI