About
Perception research, robotics, and how I got here.
I’m spending the final year of my MS in Computational Perception & Robotics at Georgia Tech on research. Right now I’m preparing for CLEF 2027, and I write software for the RoboJackets RoboCup team. I also build data infrastructure for autonomous vehicles at Zoox.
I studied math at Pomona, then spent four years as a data engineer, where I found my love for building. A graduate distributed systems course got me hooked on edge computing and embedded systems, and that sent me back to school for robotics.
I’m working toward ML and robotics roles, especially in perception. Brooklyn-born, now in Atlanta. Ask me about national parks, pickup soccer, home automation or e-ink devices at jdavid@zoox.com.