Follow me on this exciting journey to dive into the world of robotics and artificial intelligence, through understanding the application of self-driving cars. Chapter 1 — Overview: Why self-driving cars are the future, and how did we get here? Why Self-Driving Cars: From Horseless to Driverless An Introduction of Self-Driving Cars (Part 1)medium.com Chapter 2 — HD Mapping: How to build maps as the…

A General Framework for Perception — an Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 5) — In previous part of the Introduction to Self-Driving Car series, we discussed a core visual functionality of perception stack in an autonomous vehicle (AV): computer vision. In it we focused on perception sensing that involves data collection from vehicle sensors and the processing of this data into an understanding of…

An Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 4) — One of the things I enjoy the most in learning about self-driving cars is simply realizing how much resemblance a set of computing machines could bear to our human body. A part that stood out to me is perception, as it takes after many of the visual functionalities in our…

An Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 3) — Previously, we discussed about why self-driving car is the future and how we got here today by looking at the history of transportation. …

On HD Mapping — an Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 2) — The ability to get from one place to another, anywhere in the country, is one of the most remarkable gifts of our modern technology. Maps represent the real world on a much smaller scale. They help us travel from one location to another. They help us organize information when we…

An Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 1) — When I first helped the Autopilot team at Tesla in launching our Full Self-Driving beta release last year, I had never felt so close to the quality of our customers’ experience. …

A Beginner’s Guide to OKRs — During the first few years of my journey as a software engineer and a data scientist, I have watched good, ambitious goals and projects crashed with a little or no use despite months of development. Making sure we set and achieve high-impact goals is a critical responsibility at the start…

After embarking on a new role and struggled with depression and tachycardia, I quit my dream job. The following month, my relationship ended abruptly. 2020 offered nothing but hard lessons I wish I learned years earlier. — Eighteen weeks prior to my decision to step back and move on to a different team, I reached my breaking point at work. For the first time in my career — academically or professionally — I experienced a complete burnout. …