Derek Phillips Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, California, US

Staff software engineer As the head of perception engineering team at Kodiak, I oversee the development of advanced sensor fusion and tracking systems for the Kodiak Driver. We take raw sensor data and create a machine and human interpretable representation of the environment that enables safe and reliable autonomous operations. We leverage both learned.

Stanford, CA, US

Graduate Research Assistant - Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory, working on risk characterization of human drivers, broadly categorized as Imitation and Prediction.* Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning to create state-of-the-art human driver models. - Parameter Sharing to extend to multi-agent application (IROS 2018.

San Francisco, CA, US

Worked on the perception team: developed, improved, and adapted advanced deep learning object detection networks to run in real-time, with a focus on performance in the safety critical automotive environment (TensorFlow, Python, C++).Ownership over design and implementation of tools automating data collection and curation, and model testing (Python.

Implemented a feature for candidate recommendation system to expose model reasoning to system users.Built a system to analyze our logistic regression model and effectively extract important features (C++, Python, SQL).Displayed the most significant model features to users in human-readable form (Python, SQL, GraphQL, React, PHP).Analyzed the model to.

Stanford, CA, US

Implemented Long Short Term Memory Recurrent neural networks (LSTM) using TensorFlow to improve driver intention prediction.Compared classification performance of LSTM, Multilayer Perceptron, and a Bayesian Network (used Python and Julia).Published to IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2017 (June), with 20-minute lecture presentation..

Mclean, VA, US

Detected anomalous foreign language xml files utilizing limited natural language processing in Python. Assisted in the set-up of 3 resource-heavy VMs (C) on a company-wide "cloud".Involved significant diagnostics and problem isolation and solving, and comprehensive documentation.

Stanford, CA, US

Responsible for designing communications link for a CubeSat that will travel to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Created communications link budget, 1 of 2 undergrads on team of ~10. Stanford Space Environment and Satellite Systems Lab.Paper where I was a contributing author: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576516308797

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science