Stellantis: Customer-Centric Autonomy at Million-Vehicle Scale

Name: Stellantis: Customer-Centric Autonomy at Million-Vehicle Scale
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# TransformX 2022

# Fireside Chat

speakers

Neda Cvijetic

Senior Vice President – Head of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Driving (AD) @ Stellantis

Neda Cvijetic is Senior Vice President – Head of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Driving (AD) at Stellantis . She leads global AI and AD software engineering in support of creating breakthrough capabilities for all Stellantis brands and accelerating the transformation of Stellantis into a leading tech mobility company. Prior to Stellantis, Neda worked on autonomous vehicles, AI, and computer vision at NVIDIA and was also the producer and host of DRIVE Labs. Prior to NVIDIA, Neda worked on Autopilot and Infotainment systems at Tesla, served on the adjunct faculty of Columbia University, and held senior research positions at NEC Labs America. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia, as well as over 20 granted U.S. patents and peer-reviewed conference and journal publications with more than 4,000 Google scholar citations.

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Russell Kaplan

Director of Engineering @ Scale AI

Russell Kaplan leads Scale Nucleus, the data management platform for machine learning teams. He was previously founder and CEO of Helia AI, a computer vision startup for real-time video understanding, which Scale acquired in 2020. Before that, Russell was a senior machine learning scientist on Tesla's Autopilot team, and he received his M.S. and B.S. from Stanford University, where he was a researcher in the Stanford Vision Lab advised by Fei-Fei Li.

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SUMMARY

Neda Cvijetic, Senior Vice President of Autonomous Driving at Stellantis, joined Russell Kaplan, Scale’s Director of Engineering, for a fireside chat. The two will discussed the role of data diversity in building safer autonomy, and Cvijetic shared highlights from her career building autonomous vehicles at Tesla, NVIDIA, and now Stellantis, the parent company of Dodge, Fiat, and Chrysler.

Cvijetic explained the opportunities that arise while building an entirely new infrastructure for training models for autonomous vehicles at a large automotive OEM, without the hindrance of having to support legacy systems. She also discussed how she plans to achieve Stellantis’s publicly shared goals around Level 3 autonomy in 2024. The Stellantis portfolio includes Jeep, meaning its systems will also handle off-road scenarios. Kaplan and Cvijetic also covered core paradigms in autonomous vehicles, from mapping to deploying to a million-vehicle fleet, to large language models, with more than a few surprising real-world anecdotes.

Prior to Stellantis and NVIDIA, Cvijetic worked on autopilot and infotainment systems at Tesla, served on the adjunct faculty of Columbia University, and held senior research positions at NEC Labs America. She holds more than 20 U.S. patents.

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