Simon's Journey working with Autonomous Vehicles and Self-Driving Technologies

Related Areas: Real-time ML, Robotics, Algorithm-Hardware Co-design, Embedded Systems, Real-time Operating Systems & Scheduling

TL;DR

I want to work on autonomous vehicles because I believe automated ability to reshape our city to be safer and greener, and it is one of the most challenging technical challenges of our time.

Summary

👨🏻‍🏭 Work: AV Platform at [NVIDIA DRIVE](https://developer.nvidia.com/drive#:~:text=NVIDIA DRIVE® platforms include,) training platforms (DGX).), Mechatronics Engineering at TensorField

🔬 Research: AV pipeline & Motion Planning at RISE Lab, SoC for edge AI workload at ADEPT Lab, High-Performance SLAM Kernel at SLICE Lab

🛠️ Skills: Car Platform (SoC, sensor) Integration, AV Pipeline/ROS, CAN Bus, Motion Planning, CARLA Simulator, SoC Design, SLAM Algorithms, Accelerated Kernels

📚 Relevant Courses: Artificial Intelligence, Systems Programming & OS, Digital Design, Signals & Systems, Controls, Optimization Techniques

AV spans such a broad spectrum, from AI algorithm to data pipelines, system architecture to compute capabilities, sensors to mechatronics design, and that's what exactly excites me as I like to work on systems with many layers.

Some of the areas I worked on / am currently exploring include: