Worked on 3D perception and safety for E2E policies as part of 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 Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Tesla Autopilot , working on 3D object and scene understanding for vehicle and robot autonomy. Before Tesla , I worked on computational photography at Adobe Emerging Products Group. I did my Ph.D. in computer vision and computer graphics with Bill Freeman at MIT CSAIL . During 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, third-person bio.
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Computer Scientist, Adobe Emerging Products Group , 2021–2022 |
Research Intern, Google Research , 2020–2021, w/ Jon Barron |
Research Intern, Google Research , 2019–2020, w/ Yun-Ta Tsai & Jon Barron |
Ph.D. & S.M. (CS), MIT CSAIL , 2016–2021, w/ Bill Freeman |
Apr. 2023 | DiffusionRig (personalized face editing) released for CVPR 2023. |
Oct. 2022 | Joined Tesla Autopilot to work on 3D perception. |
Oct. 2021 | Joined 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 | Our paper on Bayesian modeling of Alzheimer's disease heterogeneity out in PNAS and covered by Psychology Today , MGH/HMS , etc. |
May 2016 | Our work on Alzheimer's disease subtypes awarded the Magna Cum Laude Award and oral presentation at ISMRM 2016. |
* indicates equal contribution.
Non-Referred Notes & Side Projects
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