{"id":3547,"date":"2023-03-14T13:10:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T13:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ieeecscai.wpengine.com\/2023\/?page_id=3547"},"modified":"2023-05-18T07:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T07:33:48","slug":"sachithra-hemachandra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/sachithra-hemachandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachithra Hemachandra"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3547\" class=\"elementor elementor-3547\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-637668dd elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"637668dd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;slideshow&quot;,&quot;background_slideshow_gallery&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;1119&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ieeecscai.wpengine.com\\\/2023\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/2\\\/2022\\\/02\\\/bannerimage.png&quot;}],&quot;background_slideshow_loop&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;background_slideshow_slide_duration&quot;:5000,&quot;background_slideshow_slide_transition&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;background_slideshow_transition_duration&quot;:500}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6381026\" data-id=\"6381026\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13134342 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"13134342\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Sachithra Hemachandra<br>\nStaff Tech Lead Manager, Cruise<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-305f7b47 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"305f7b47\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1587ea43\" data-id=\"1587ea43\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4adea96d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4adea96d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3552 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ieeecscai.wpengine.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/hemachandra-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/hemachandra-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/hemachandra-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/03\/hemachandra.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p><h5>June 6, 11:00am<br \/>Location: Magnolia<\/h5><h4><span lang=\"EN\">Panelist: <a href=\"https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/panels\/\">Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/h4><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Autonomous driving is one of the fastest-growing industries leveraging artificial intelligence solutions. Autonomous driving has been using a suite of modalities like cameras, LiDARs, RADARs, microphones, ultrasonics, city-traffic data, and everything around in order to bring autonomous cars to a boring reality. This panel will bring together experts in the field of AI for autonomous driving to discuss the frontiers of Perception; the field of distilling sensor data into representations understandable by the autonomy stack. The panel is comprised of a diverse group with several years of experience in building robots and complex perception systems for the purpose of autonomous passenger vehicles and delivery robots. This panel will discuss challenges to developing a scalable, safe, and ethical perception system for the future. Topics will include, but are not limited to long tail problems in autonomous driving, data mining, perception architectures, ML Infrastructure, and future technologies, among others. The panelists will provide their viewpoint not only from a performance perspective but from the lens of an experienced practitioner balancing reliability with practical computing considerations. This is an excellent opportunity for attendees to gain a deeper understanding of the latest advancements in AI for autonomous driving and the pivotal role it will play in reshaping our transportation landscape.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sachih\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2886\" src=\"https:\/\/ieeecscai.wpengine.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/linkedin-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35\" height=\"35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/linkedin-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/linkedin-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/linkedin.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 35px) 100vw, 35px\" \/><\/a><strong>Dr. Sachi Hemachandra<\/strong> is a Tech Lead Manager at Cruise leading a Perception Team working to help autonomous vehicles better understand long tailed behavior of surrounding agents. Prior to Cruise, Sachi was a staff research scientist at the Toyota Research Institute where he led the tracking team and helped design the perception stack for L4 driving. He started his career in self driving joining the Waymo perception team in 2016 where he worked on object tracking and sensor fusion. Sachi holds a PhD in EECS at MIT in 2015 in robotics where he worked on Semantic mapping and use of natural language in robotics.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4148\" src=\"https:\/\/ieeecscai.wpengine.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/cruise-300x86.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"22\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/cruise-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/cai.ieee.org\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/cruise.png 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sachithra Hemachandra Staff Tech Lead Manager, Cruise June 6, 11:00amLocation: Magnolia Panelist: Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving Autonomous driving is one of the fastest-growing industries leveraging artificial intelligence solutions. 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