Dr. Jan Bernlöhr
Senior Expert Machine Learning Perception for ADAS
Work Experience
Technology Lead Video Perception
*Transformed the stack from single-camera networks to spatio-temporal multi-view networks*Close collaboration with corporate research*Successful customer demos of urban hands-free driving using solely cameras (vision only)*Build-up of a large multi-modal sequential dataset*End-to-end data loop with < 24h cycle time from event in car to new network in car*Training optimization for A100 yielding 7-figure savings YoY*Strong use of auto-labeling (vision foundation models + post processing)
Deep Learning Engineer → Product Owner
*Deep Learning based camera perception for automated driving*Multi Task CNNs (Semantic Segmentation, 3d Object Detection, Object Tracking, ...)*Co-Creator xflow: reusable training modules to facilitate collaboration in teams > 50 devs*Continuous & reproducible trainings (16x V100; weekly sync with Microsoft's AzureML Team)*Real-time optimization & deployment on embedded platforms (QNX, CUDA, NVIDIA Xavier & Orin)
Bosch, ADAS, Leonberg
2016 - 2017
Developer → Product Owner
*Team-lead Motion Planning (SOPs: VW Golf 8, JLR Defender, ...)*Software architect for scalable ADAS functions Level 1-3*Rollout of Continuous Build & Continuous Testing in Open and Closed Loop Simulation
Scholar of the Zurich Graduate School of Mathematics → Research Assistant
*Research on nonlinear partial differential equations - see publications*Invited talks in Nantes, Luminy, Rome, St. Petersburg, Ascona
Microsoft, Munich / RedmondHybrid
2007 - 2012
Microsoft Expert Student Partner, Microsoft Certified Professional
*Organization of Talks and Workshops at German Universities on Azure and .NET*Invited Speaker at TechEd 2009 Berlin on Azure Web Services*Active contributions to .net, Visual Studio, and Windows Presentation Foundation
Education
PhD in Mathematics, University of Zurich
2012 - 2016
Thesis: New features of the Birkhoff map for the dNLS equation, Supervisor: Prof. Kappeler
Diploma in Mathematics, University of Stuttgart
2007 - 2012
Thesis: Spectral triangles of Zakharov-Shabat operators in weighted Sobolev spaces; with distinction
Skills
Torch
Tensorflow
Computer Vision
Data Loop
Object Detection & Tracking
Auto labeling
E2E Deep Learning
Python
Azure
CUDA
Modern C++
QNX