Rodolfo Valiente
Scientist IV at HRL Laboratories, LLC
Malibu, California, United States
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Top SchoolRodolfo Valiente is an applied scientist specializing in AI and robotics with nine years of experience building perception and autonomy systems for vehicles and robots. Currently at General Motors after a research leadership track at HRL Laboratories, he has led machine learning R&D, tech transitions, and autonomous driving projects grounded in deep learning and reinforcement learning. His work bridges academic rigor—PhD candidacy at UCF and prior graduate research supported by Hyundai, Ford, and NSF—with practical deployment in industry settings. Based in Mountain View, he focuses on creating robots that seamlessly integrate into daily life, simplifying and enriching human experiences. Beyond engineering, he brings a humanistic curiosity—philosophy, history, puzzles, and long-distance running—that informs a people-centered approach to automation. Notably, his background spans both connected vehicle research and information extraction from unstructured web content, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on perception, decision-making, and data validation.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car, Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car at UdacityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Escola Politécnica da USPUniversidad Tecnológica de La Habana "José Antonio Echeverría", CUJAEDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
simulator7
robotics7
lidar7
point-cloud5
object-detection5
deep-reinforcement-learning5
computer-vision5
calibration5
depth-camera5
reinforcement-learning5
3d-object-detection5
3d-detection5
python5
toolbox5
pytorch5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Autonomous-Vehicle/Cooperative-Self-driving-Vehicles
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
rvalienter90/UCF
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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