Yun-ta Tsai
Sr. Staff Engineer, Autopilot at Tesla
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYun-ta Tsai is a Sr. Staff Engineer specializing in real-time imaging, vision, and system architecture with 11 years of experience bringing complex algorithms from research to production across Google and Tesla Autopilot. He has led and shipped camera and ML-driven imaging features—auto white balance, portrait relighting, HDR compression telemetry, and low-visibility safety models—demonstrating a rare blend of low-level optimization and higher-level machine learning. Known internally as a "janitor of all trades" at Tesla, he thrives on solving problems that span hardware, embedded pipelines, and large-scale product integration. His background includes high-performance GPU and heterogeneous computing work at NVIDIA and mobile imaging/AR systems at Nokia, reflecting deep cross-domain technical fluency. Based in California, he pairs technical leadership with an eye for photography, applying practical aesthetic sensibilities to imaging problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityM.S, Computer Science, M.S, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (3)
machine-learning9
handheld9
photography5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
google/portrait-shadow-manipulation
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 1 branch in 1 day
google/night-sight
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
This is a github to host the webpage for: Handheld Mobile Photography in Very Low Light
Contributions:185 commits, 185 pushes in 1 day
hostlightphotographyhandheldwebpage
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