Joey Litalien
Senior Autopilot Software Engineer, Simulation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Litalien is a senior autopilot software engineer at Tesla with 11 years of experience specializing in simulation, neural rendering, and differentiable rendering for 3D reconstruction. He holds a Ph.D. from McGill where he researched Monte Carlo light transport, neural rendering, and implicit scene representations, and has shipped research-grade systems during internships at NVIDIA, Meta, and Adobe that led to top-tier publications and a patent. At Tesla he applies that rendering + ML expertise to video-world simulation for autonomous driving, bridging high-fidelity photoreal simulation with production autopilot stacks. Notably, his work on real-time neural signed distance field rendering influenced open-source tooling for neural fields and demonstrates a rare blend of academic rigor and production engineering. Based in San Francisco, he brings deep graphics math, large-scale neural systems experience, and a track record of turning research innovations into deployable software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of College Studies (DEC) – International Baccalaureate, Pure & Applied Sciences, Diploma of College Studies (DEC) – International Baccalaureate, Pure & Applied Sciences at Cégep GarneauDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University
French, English
Github Skills (90)
inverse10
implicit10
level-of-detail10
rendering10
geometric10
theory9
sampling9
3d-reconstruction9
computer-vision9
computer-graphics9
pbrt9
pytorch9
renderer9
artificial-intelligence9
poisson9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
joeylitalien/celeba-gan-pytorch
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:57 commits, 6 pushes in 22 days
joeylitalien/joeylitalien.github.io
Nov 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:175 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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