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 short reflection on my time in the tech capital of the world — When I first moved to the Bay Area, I told myself I would move back to NY in two years. Fast forward half a decade later, here I am still in San Francisco. I’ve moved jobs, built meaningful relationships, and finally made friends with the fog. I’m still one of…

The happiest and healthiest I’ve been — “Life taught me love is risky. Death taught me to love even more.” — Maxime Lagacé This week, I turned 28. I’m the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been — mentally, physically, and emotionally. What this state of happy and healthy really means is a deep sense of completion, peace…

A brief overview of hard and soft real-time systems — Working in the field of autonomous systems this past couple of years has got me mesmerized over this tiny-huge world called Operating System. To be more specific, it’s the application of a real-time operating system — mainly characterized by predictability and determinism — that I want to zoom in more…

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. …

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…

The Evolution from Horseless to Driverless — An Introduction to Self-Driving Cars (Part 1) — When my team and I first launched the Tesla Full Self-Driving beta release last year, I had never felt so close to our customers and the range of experiences they encountered when trying out our product for the first time. …