James Philbin
SVP, Autonomy & AI at Rivian
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Philbin is an experienced autonomy and AI leader with 16 years building large-scale machine learning, computer vision, 3-D sensing, and robotics systems for autonomous vehicles and consumer imaging. Currently SVP of Autonomy & AI at Rivian after leading perception and software teams at Zoox and Waymo, he blends hands-on research depth (PhD, Oxford) with operational leadership scaling engineering organizations. His track record spans core computer vision work at Google that powered image products to leading end-to-end perception and prediction stacks for complex urban driving. Known for solving practical distributed-system and deep-learning challenges, he focuses on turning cutting-edge perception research into robust, production-ready autonomy.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Engineering, PhD Engineering at University of Oxford
Github Skills (34)
build-system10
bazel10
extensible10
scalable10
bazel-rules9
unix7
opengl7
linux7
cgo7
opengl-es7
macos6
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windows6
vulkan6
embedded5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
philbinj/fastann
Nov 2009 - Nov 2009
Contributions:32 commits in 21 days
philbinj/fastcluster
Nov 2009 - Feb 2010
Contributions:9 commits in 2 months
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