Technologist, thinker, innovator.

• TL;DR: Self-supervised visual intelligence in agents that learn from experience.
• High-impact ventures leveraging ML/CV technologies in autonomous systems
• Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Autonomous Vehicles/Robots etc

• Jan 2022 - Present: Co-founder / CEO, Building Visual AI Infrastructure @ VLM Run
• Jan 2020 - Mar 2021: Team Lead, Machine Learning Engineering @ Toyota Research Institute
• May 2019 - Jan 2020: Manager, Machine Learning @ Toyota Research Institute
• Oct 2017 - May 2019: Research Scientist @ Toyota Research Institute
• May 2014 - Aug 2014: Research Intern @ Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
• May 2009 - May 2011: Computer Vision Developer @ PhaseSpace Motion Capture
• May 2008 - Aug 2008: R & D Engineer Intern @ Segway Inc.

• 2014 - 2017: Ph.D. in Computer Science @ CSAIL, MIT
  • 📕 Thesis: SLAM-aware, Self-Supervised Perception in Mobile Robots
• 2011 - 2014: S.M. in Computer Science @ CSAIL, MIT
• 2005 - 2008: B.S.E in Mechanical Engineering @ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• TWIMLcon 2021: MLOps for High-Stakes Environments
• ODSC West 2019: World-scale Deep Learning for Automated Driving
• Auto AI 2019: World-scale Deep Learning for Automated Driving
• NVIDIA GTC Silicon Valley 2019: Beyond Supervised Driving (jointly with Adrien Gaidon)
• RE·WORK Deep Learning Summit Boston 2018: Self-supervision in Mobile Robots in the Deep Learning Era

• Ask me about ML Infrastructure, Autonomous Vehicles, Computer Vision, SLAM
• Social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium
• Other links: Personal Site, CV / Resume, Google Scholar
• Email: sudeep "dot" pillai "at" gmail "dot" com