Rachel Gardner
Machine Learning Engineer at Aurora
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Gardner is a Machine Learning Engineer in Palo Alto with 13 years of hands-on experience building perception and robotics systems, currently developing ML models and production components at Aurora. A Stanford CS BS/MS focused on robotics and AI, she has shipped end-to-end projects from data pipelines to C++/PyTorch model implementations at companies including NVIDIA, BabbleLabs (acquired by Cisco), and Aurora. Early entrepreneurial experience founding Chap Research and inventing a patented Bluetooth robot remote informs her product-minded approach and ability to lead small teams and contractors. Fluent in Mandarin and experienced in AI market research, she combines technical depth in computer vision, NLP, ROS, and embedded systems with a knack for translating research into pragmatic engineering solutions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Language, Chinese Language at National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)Valedictorian, Valedictorian at Westlake High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.04, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.04 at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (101)
command-line-interface9
amazon-web-services9
amazon9
aws-cli9
robotics8
webots8
gazebo-simulator8
robot8
aws8
gazebosim8
nodes8
opengl7
audio-classification7
autonomous-robots7
python7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ChapResearch/CROMA
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
rachel-1/misc-scripts
Sep 2017 - Jul 2023
A collection of various scripts/utilities I've created over the years.
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
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