David Yao
Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Yao is an Autopilot Machine Learning Engineer with 12 years of experience at the intersection of mathematics and computer science, currently contributing to Tesla's Geometric Vision team in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends academic rigor from an MS in Computer Science and hands-on research and teaching experience at UIUC with practical system-building—shipping real-time video moderation features at Roblox and deploying lightweight object-detection on embedded devices. His background spans computer vision, ML research, and production engineering, with strengths in model prototyping, OOD detection, and automating evaluation pipelines. Eager to translate theory into robust, real-world systems, he brings a rare combination of classroom instruction, published-style research implementation, and end-to-end deployment experience.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHwa Chong Institution
Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davidyao/AutoEmbed
Jan 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 8 months
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