Yassine Yousfi
Head Of Machine Learning at comma.ai
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYassine Yousfi is Head of Machine Learning at comma.ai with eight years of experience applying deep learning to real-world systems, from self-driving cars to digital media security. He holds an MEng in Data Science from École Centrale de Lille and completed postgraduate research in steganography, steganalysis and image forensics, winning and placing highly in international steganalysis challenges. At comma.ai he moved from ML engineer to leading the ML organization, contributing directly to openpilot model architectures and optimizations used across hundreds of supported cars. His background spans applied research and production ML—building experiment-tracking systems, designing novel CNNs for JPEG/DCT domains, and shipping forecasting and attribution models in industry. Based in San Diego, he combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering, frequently bridging research advances into deployable systems. An under-the-radar strength is his experience spec’ing and building high-performance compute platforms tailored for intensive deep learning experiments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Preparatory Classes Mathematics Physics & Engineering Sciences, Preparatory Classes Mathematics Physics & Engineering Sciences at Moulay Youssef RabatDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton UniversityMaster of Engineering (MEng) Data science, Master of Engineering (MEng) Data science at Centrale Lille
Github Skills (13)
computer-vision10
machine-learning10
trainings10
onnx10
modeling10
model-optimization10
python9
tensorflow9
sys9
drive9
system9
driver9
robotics8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
commaai/openpilot
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 34 commits, 131 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Yassine primarily contributed to the development and improvement of machine learning models within the openpilot project. Their work involved modifying model architectures, updating model files, and training on new datasets. A significant portion of their commits focused on model optimization, including adjustments to weight decay and the implementation of techniques to enhance height estimation. They also addressed input order issues within the onnxmodel and added support for raw prediction data.
cruise-controlracingopenpilotadaptiveadaptive-cruise-control
YassineYousfi/tinygrad
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
You like pytorch? You like micrograd? You love tinygrad! ❤️
Contributions:2 PRs, 48 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
deep-learningpytorchmicrograd
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