Awards & Recognition
★Promoted to Vice President of AI Software at Tesla (2024)
★Selected as guest lecturer at Stanford CS153 course alongside industry leaders
★First engineer hired for Tesla's Autopilot team (2014)
Notable Facts
→Vice President of AI Software at Tesla, promoted from Director of Autopilot Software in 2024
→First engineer hired for Tesla's Autopilot team in 2014, worked directly under Elon Musk
→Led Tesla's transition to vision-only autonomous driving and end-to-end neural networks
→Now leads both Autopilot and Optimus humanoid robot programs at Tesla
→Has 224.5K followers on X/Twitter with regular technical content
→Keynote speaker at major AI conferences including ICCV and ScaledML
→Carnegie Mellon University MS in Robotics, originally from Chennai, India
→11+ years at Tesla, rising from Software Engineer to VP level