Technical Experience
- Autonomous driving systems for production
- Computer vision, scene understanding and reinforcement learning research
- Robotics architecture design
- Technical leader delivering complex systems
Technical Experience & Education
Education Institutions
- Computer Science and Engineering, PhD, UC San Diego.
- Intelligent Systems, Robotics, and Control, M.S, UC San Diego.
- Computer Engineering, B.S, UC San Diego.
Work Experience Timeline
2023-Present
Senior Research Scientist and Tech Lead, Bosch Center for AI
Building and leading the development of next generation AI planning and scene understanding for parking and autonomous driving technology.
2017-2023
Research Project Lead, AVL @ UC San Diego
Developed road-user trajectory prediction, intent recognition, and dynamic scene understanding models to address the scalability constraints from current state of the art architectures.
2021
Perception Engineer, TuSimple
Quantified key performance benefits and constraints of flow data in an online perception system. Designed and implemented a context-aware tracking framework for occlusion scenarios.
Selected Publications
- D. Paz, et al. (2020). Probabilistic semantic mapping for urban autonomous driving applications. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
- H. Christensen, D. Paz, et al. (2021). Autonomous vehicles for micro-mobility. Autonomous Intelligent Systems
- H. Zhang, D. Paz, et al. (2023). Enhancing online road network perception and reasoning with standard definition maps. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems