$ 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 build autonomous robots end to end: perception, localization, planning, control, and simulation. Earlier, I worked on perception software for real-time autonomous-driving systems, 3D reconstruction for mapping and closed-loop simulation, and multi-GPU training pipelines for 3D vision.
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.
$ ls
links/ publication@ misc@ email.txt formation.jpg*
$ cat email.txt
contact [at] tao [dot] li # robots please behave
$ ls links/
$ 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
$ display formation.jpg
Photo taken from the lead in our two-ship formation over Monterey Bay.
$ exit
logout