Jad Nohra Email & Phone Number

Germany

Germany

San Francisco, CA, US

* Building a highly performant system software / HPC fabric, that enables hardware accelerated ZKP to reach its full potential scaling blockchains, including compilation into our custom instruction sets.* Optimizing Irreducible’s engineering workflows and processes. * Ensuring project and product delivery.

München, Bayern, DE

Technically leading and managing a team developing safety critical autonomous driving functions for trucks, using safe perception techniques, applied to sensors such as LiDAR and Radar. Making sure the company adopts a solid strategy and stays on an optimal path to success, as a member of the engineering leadership team

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

I was offered to lead the testing strategy due to my internal contributions to the topic. I started working on a strategy that is pragmatic, efficient, iterative, convincing, and knits together the knowledge of autonomy, simulation, virtual testing, and systems engineering, filling the many gaps contained in a still immature and underspecified SOTIF.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

I was the main driver for the Argo simulation validation effort. In that role, I bootstrapped the topic, obtained management buy-in, as well as buy-in from technical leads of autonomy teams (motion control, prediction, motion planning) and systems engineering (SOTIF, Function safety). I assembled a team focused on the topic, including tight collaboration.

Munich, Bavaria, DE

Built and led 4 virtual testing/simulation related teams with a total of 20 engineers (50% PhD, 13 years experience on average), until an acquisition by Argo AI in the context of a VW-Ford partnership.Topics were: SIL framework for full stack replay and simulation, traffic simulation, environment and sensor simulation, scenario-based diagnostics and.

Redmond, Washington, US

As interim lead for Havok Destruction I did the following: Determination of requirements through data, interviews and surveys, identification of technically problematic features by technical proof, development of roadmap and presentation to stakeholders, maintenance through bug-fixing

Redmond, Washington, US

Worked on R&D prototypes related to the integration of the Havok physics engine into the augmented reality Hololens, resulting in a localization related patent. I also worked on prototyping a cloud-based distributed physics concept.

Dublin, IE

Worked on the Havok physics engine (Leading real-time rigid-body dynamics middleware) on the following topics: Low-level optimization (Vectorization, Multi-threading), Geometric queries, Numerical analysis, Numerical optimization (linear programming) in the context of physics solvers.

Consulted 'Guided Knowledge' in the topic of nonlinear optimisation as applied to IMU sensor data. The result was the writing of a technical internal report that was used to steer certain decisions. Additionally, I wrote related python based tools.

Amsterdam, North Holland, NL

For the AI of Killzone 3 (Acclaimed Playstation3 FPS) I worked on: AI and animation motion planning, navigation and behavior (humanoids, land and air vehicles), multiplayer AI bots, automated navigable space generation and tools, automated AI testing, Maya animation tooling.

WIEN, AT

At AiGameDev, we aimed to build an open source framework for state of the art game AI. I was a main contributor to that framework, and worked on: Motion Graphs, Animation, Locomotion Planning, Reinforcement learning, A*, Hierarchical A*, Terrain Clustering, low level AI systems (logging, assertion, smart pointers)

Worked on a Nintendo DS game engine, including graphics, optimization, gameplay, effects, audio. I also wroted the AI system for an 'stochastic with incomplete information' kind of game.

As technical co-founder, I co-designed and implemened the soccer game https://github.com/jadnohra/World-Of-Football from scratch in c++. This included low level systems, template libraries, math libraries, logging, custom micro-collision physics engine, sound system, fixed function rendering, mesh loading, mesh transforms, skeletal animation system.

Wrote a software suite for a stereoscopic screen. This included specialized OpenGL/DirectX wrappers and demo applications including video streaming.

6330 Cham, CH

Developed an online casino game engine in both C++/DirectX and java, both server and client side.

Ms, Mathematics

Be, Computer And Communications Engineering