CO-LOCATED EVENTS

Speaker

Zhenhua Yu, Phd

Senior Machine Learning Engineer PhD | Autopilot, Tesla Inc.

Tesla Motors, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Nov. 2016–Today
Texas Instruments, System Engineer, Machine Learning Lab, May 2014–Oct. 2016

  • Deep learning library development: TI Machine Learning Library (C/C++/CUDA), Caffe, Tensorflow, Torch, MXNet, Theano
  • Deep learning applications research and implementation: image classification, multiple object detection (R-CNN, Fast R-CNN, Faster R-CNN), scene understanding, stereo depth estimation, motion estimation

Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Signal and Image Processing, Graduate Research Assistant, May 2010–May 2014

  • Conducted in-depth statistical analysis of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) time-domain signals in optical wireless communications
  • Proposed various optimization methods, e.g., convex optimization, integer programming, iterative clipping, and delta-sigma modulation, to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio of OFDM time-domain signals, which significantly improved power efficiency

 

The Pop in your Job: Whats your passion?
There are so many uncertainties in autonomous driving. While deep learning is such a powerful tool that is solving many problems and will be solving more problems, you would not expect any deep neural network can cover every single corner case. These corner cases, of course frustrating me, but meanwhile drive me every day.

Company

Tesla Inc.

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage. California-based Tesla is committed to be the best-in-class in safety, performance, and reliability in all Tesla cars, and there are currently over 180,000 Model S and Model X vehicles on the road worldwide. To achieve a sustainable energy future, Tesla also created infinitely scalable energy products: Powerwall, Powerpack and solar roof. As the world’s only vertically integrated energy company, Tesla continues to innovate, scale and reduce the costs of commercial and grid-scale systems, with the goal of ultimately getting us to 100% renewable energy grids.