Yannis Karakozis
Member Of Technical Staff at Chai Discovery
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYannis Karakozis is a mission-driven software engineer with 10 years of experience building perception and evaluation systems for autonomous vehicles and robotics, currently a Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco. A Princeton CS graduate with a certificate in Statistics and Machine Learning, he progressed at Nuro from junior engineer to staff tech lead/manager, leading offline perception evaluation and cross-functional teams. He combines deep technical expertise in computer vision and ML with practical production experience shipping large-scale perception pipelines and evaluation frameworks. Outside of industry, he co-founded Princeton Envision, demonstrating early entrepreneurial drive and an aptitude for organizing ambitious, research-focused events. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who trades academic complexity for robust, testable solutions in real-world autonomy stacks.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Princeton University
English, Greek, Spanish
Github Skills (26)
keras-neural-networks9
densenet8
keras-models8
converter7
keras-tensorflow7
resnet7
tensorflowjs7
efficientnet7
keras6
pong6
mobilenet6
mlp6
gaussian-mixture-models6
imagenet6
ping5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pu-ping-pong-league/pong
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Interface for Managing the Princeton University Ping Pong League
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year
princetonpongping-pongleagueping
ryan-mccaffrey/cos598-project
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:54 commits, 5 pushes in 20 days
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