Tung Phan-minh is a Senior AI Research Scientist with nine years of experience specializing in machine learning for planning and prediction in autonomous vehicles. Now at Cruise after leading ML prediction and learned-planning initiatives at Motional, he has delivered production-ready pipelines, a 10x faster metrics framework, and learnable trajectory modules that resolved up to 81% of map-compliance issues. His work produced DriveIRL—the company’s first learned planner to operate on public roads—and multiple patents, reflecting a strong track record of translating research into deployed driving systems. A Caltech PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a CS minor, he blends rigorous academic foundations with hands-on systems delivery and a penchant for accelerating ML tooling and evaluation at scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Contributions:66 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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Tung Phan-minh - Senior AI Research Scientist II at Cruise