Cornelius Wefelscheid
Founder at Aptiv
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolCornelius Wefelscheid is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building computer vision and autonomous driving systems from research to production. He currently leads PlugOvr.ai, an open-source AI assistant implemented in Rust, while holding senior management responsibilities for sensor perception at Aptiv. His background spans academic PhD-level work in computer vision and SLAM at TU Berlin to hands-on leadership delivering ISO26262/ASPICE safety-critical ADAS features up to ASIL D. Cornelius combines deep technical expertise in perception, planning and GPGPU with product and program ownership—budgeting, cross-site collaboration and team scaling across Europe and the US. He also runs DeepKomma.de, applying deep learning to German comma correction, showing a taste for practical NLP side projects alongside autonomous systems. Based in Wuppertal, he blends academic rigor, open-source craftsmanship, and automotive-grade engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing., Computer Vision, Dr.-Ing., Computer Vision at Technische Universität BerlinBlue Ridge School
English, German
Github Skills (5)
sparse6
least-squares6
optimization4
cuda3
gpu3
Github contributions (1)
OpenOF/OpenOF
Dec 2012 - Apr 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 4 months
cudalinear-least-squaresgpuoptimizationsparse
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