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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Recognized by Elon Musk as first Tesla Autopilot hire
★214 academic citations on Google Scholar
★Featured speaker at International Conference on Computer Vision
★Guest lecturer at Stanford University CS153 course
Notable Facts
→First engineer hired for Tesla's Autopilot team in 2014
→Current VP of AI Software at Tesla (promoted October 2024)
→Now leads Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot program
→Has 224.5K Twitter followers and strong tech community presence
→Regular speaker at major AI/ML conferences including ICCV and ScaledML
→Master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Robotics
→Bachelor's from College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
→Born in Chennai, India, 11+ years at Tesla
→Credited by Musk for transforming Tesla from car company to AI pioneer
→Presents at international conferences on Tesla's end-to-end neural networks
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