Ashesh Jain

Ashesh Jain is a technology leader with extensive experience in artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and machine learning. He served as Director of Engineering and Head of Autonomy at Lyft Level 5, the self-driving division of Lyft, in 2021.12 Prior to this role, he held positions as Director of Engineering and Head of Perception, and Senior Engineering Manager at Lyft, leading teams responsible for building machine learning-first autonomy stacks and neural networks for autonomous vehicles.1

Currently, Ashesh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Coram AI, a position he has held since November 2021.3 His career also includes roles as:

• Engineering Manager at Zoox Inc. (2016-2017)
• Research Scholar in Computer Science at Stanford University (2014-2016)
• PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell University (2012-2016)13

Ashesh holds a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, specializing in Machine Learning, Robotics, and Computer Vision. He also has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.14

His expertise includes artificial intelligence, computer vision, deep learning, machine learning, neural networks, and robotics.2 Ashesh has authored multiple papers and received recognition for his work, including the Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 2016 for his research on "Structural-RNN: Deep Learning on Spatio-Temporal graphs".3