Derek Phillips
Head Of Perception Engineering at Kodiak
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Phillips is Head of Perception Engineering with a decade of experience building production-grade perception, sensor fusion, and multi-object tracking systems for autonomous vehicles. He blends academic rigor from Stanford—where he advanced imitation learning, risk prediction from monocular video, and published multiple papers—with hands-on delivery at Kodiak and Lyft to ship safety-critical AI in real-time. Derek is comfortable moving fast in ambiguous environments, architecting hybrid systems that combine classical state estimation and particle filters with modern deep learning. He has a track record of turning research prototypes (e.g., real-time driver risk prediction and GAN-based driver models) into deployable systems and tools for data curation and model testing. Passionate about mentorship and widening access to STEM, he actively supports underrepresented minorities entering the field.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
English
Github Skills (26)
autocomplete9
react-mapbox-gl9
binding8
bitcoin8
mapbox-gl8
mapbox-gl-js8
nodejs7
react7
search-ui6
angular6
vue6
javascript6
algolia6
elasticsearch5
typescript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BTCP-community/bitcoinprivate-prefork-website
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
The pre-fork website for Bitcoin Private.
Contributions:99 commits, 55 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 months
bitcoin
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