$ whoami

This is Tao Li, a tinkerer between models and machines, building things that see, think, and learn faster than I do. More professionally, I’m a founding engineer and tech lead building autonomous robots end to end: perception, localization, planning, control, and simulation. Earlier, I worked on autonomous-driving perception for real-time systems, neural 3D reconstruction (NeRF and Gaussian splatting), and large-scale multi-GPU machine learning.

I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University, advised by Prof. Chris Clifton, where I built privacy-preserving vision systems and tried to keep machines busy but not nosy.

Mostly just trying to make things work.

Off the clock, I fly small airplanes; my wife races horses around barrels.

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$ ls

links/   publication@   misc@   email.txt   formation.jpg*

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$ cat email.txt

contact [at] tao [dot] li # robots please behave

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$ ls links/

Google_Scholar/    GitHub/    PGP_Key/

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$ ls -l misc/

lrwxrwxrwx 1 tao tao 4 Feb 30 12:61 flying -> pilot.log
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tao tao 4 Feb 30 12:61 table_tennis -> matches.txt

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$ display formation.jpg

Photo taken from the lead in our two-ship formation over Monterey Bay.

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$ exit

logout