Ravi Akella
Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRavi Akella is a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Tesla focusing on end-to-end neural networks for self-driving, with eight years of experience bridging research and production autonomy systems. He holds an MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon and a B.Tech in ECE from IIT Roorkee, and has progressed rapidly from research roles at CMU and Caltech to engineering positions at Cruise and Tesla Autopilot. His background spans both algorithm development and practical tooling—early in his career he improved verification productivity at Texas Instruments by building an organization-wide testbench generation pipeline. Comfortable moving models from lab to road, Ravi combines deep perception and robotics expertise with hands-on productionization experience in safety-critical systems. Based in Palo Alto, he brings a researcher’s rigor and an engineer’s focus on scalable, deployable ML for real-world autonomy.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeMaster of Science - MS, Robotics, 4.20, Master of Science - MS, Robotics, 4.20 at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (99)
python10
deep-learning10
computer-graphics10
rendering10
stochastic-processes10
transformer10
nlp10
odometry10
gaussian-processes10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
google-colaboratory10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
gaussian10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Akella17/Akella117.github.io
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
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Akella17/Deep-Bayesian-Quadrature-Policy-Optimization
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
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