I am very excited to have invited Dr. Guan Wang from NIO to talk about Machine Learning & Self-driving car.Join us.
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Title: Overviewing Autonomous Driving & Machine Learning Inside
Summary: This talk gives an overview of technical aspects of autonomous driving with an emphasis on the various of machine learning techniques used inside the system. Major components of autonomous driving systems, from hardware to software, their current progress & challenges will be discussed.
Bio: Guan Wang is a staff machine learning engineer at NIO (NextEV). He is a hackathon champion & entrepreneur. He is the first AI person at NIO, where he is the major designer, architect, & engineer for a range of NIOs in-house AI products, especially w.r.t vehicle perception. Before NIO, he was the first person to bring machine learning to the business analytics department at LinkedIn & helped the team grew from 3 people to about 100 people in a short time. Guan Wang holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science specialized in machine learning & data mining from University of Illinois at Chicago with Prof. Philip S. Yu.
Agenda
6 pm -- 6:30 pm networking
6:30 pm -- 7:45 pm Main talk & QA
7:45 pm -- 8:00 pm closing