Phil Duan
Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Autopilot at Tesla
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Duan is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer leading Autopilot perception efforts at Tesla in Sunnyvale, bringing a decade of experience building production-grade ML systems for autonomous vehicles. He heads teams focused on occupancy networks, object detection, behavior prediction, auto-labeling, and online perception—closing the loop from research prototypes to scalable, real-time pipelines. His background combines optics and electrical engineering (B.S. from Wuhan University of Technology; M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University), giving him deep domain knowledge in sensing and signal processing. Known for driving cross-functional engineering at scale, he emphasizes automated data labeling and continuous online perception updates to improve fleet performance. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, he balances rigorous academic training with hands-on delivery in one of the world’s most demanding real-time AI systems. He rarely checks LinkedIn, so direct messages are the best way to reach him about Tesla AI opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering at Ohio UniversityB.S., Optic Information Science and Technology, B.S., Optic Information Science and Technology at Wuhan University of Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
self-driving-car10
computer-vision9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
autonomous-vehicles9
pytorch9
tensorflow8
data-science8
neural-network6
particle-filter6
jax6
kalman6
kalman-filter6
filter5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
philbort/LeetCode
Apr 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:386 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
philbort/awesome-self-driving-cars
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
An awesome list of self-driving cars
Contributions:2 reviews, 46 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
deep-learningcarsself-drivingmachine-learningself-driving-cars
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