Oszkar Jozsa

Senior Engineering Lead

I am leading the self-driving engineering teams at Ascent Robotics, namely the robotics, the controls, the perception and the vehicle platform teams. I am involved both in the technical and the operations/management side of the organization. We are currently in growth mode, I am leading 25 people in a constantly evolving environment which started as a "team" of 1 less than 2.5 years ago.

My role covers a range of robotics and software development tasks, including: SW architecture design, helping out ML research, robotics software development, systems engineering, self-driving operation management, field testing, code reviewing, roadmap planning and technical hiring.

Technical Lead

I was leading the broader self-driving engineering teams at Ascent Robotics while the organization was growing after our Series A investment. I was invovled with the vehicle robotics and perception team, infrastructure team and software tools team (latter being mostly simulation). Before restructuring, I was leading 30+ people in a constantly evolving environment and served as an interim CTO for a while. During this period, I started to learn and be involved with leadership and management while still actively working on engineering tasks.

Senior Robotics Engineer

I was leading a team of 5-7 engineers, developing the core framework of our deep learning and robotics platform. I was working on various self-driving engineering tasks including HW and SW architecture design, software engineering, technical hiring and project management. Additional to this, I was also working on financial intelligence projects.

Robotics Engineer

I joined Ascent Robotics as the company's 2nd engineer. I am actively participating in shaping the company ever since them, both on the code/architecture and on the organizational level. My initial tasks involved computer vision and software prototype development, architecture design and tech pitch to investors and potential partners.

Software Engineer

I worked on the then next-generation RoboTaxi, ZMP's self driving platfrom. I mostly worked on computer vision and robotic system software development. I also participated in systems setup, sensor calibation and testing the self-driving car both on the test track and in traffic.

Software Engineer

I developed vision software front-end (Cognex VisionView, Cognex Designer), mostly in C#, TypeScript and JavaScript. I was responsible for HMI framework design and implementation, script parsing, object serialization-deserialization and automatic code generation.

Associate Software Engineer

Research Intern / Contractor

I joined as an intern and stayed at the Academy as a contractor Research Engineer. I was part of the Machine Perception Research Laboratory research group and worked on 2D and 3D computer vision, image processing and 3D object recognition and registration in Point Clouds. Most of my work was related to object detection, segmentation and scene understanding in lidar point clouds.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Remote studies. I dropped out because of my demanding startup work.

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

I took a vide array of classes including Electrical and Mechanical Engineering classes to explore my interests. I also won two scholarships (see below).

Florida Institute of Technology

I won an EU scholarship (STARS - Sensing Technology and Robotics Scholarship) to spend a year in the US. During the year I was able to complete all Florida Tech courses that were disjunct from my program and gradudated both at Florida Tech and my home institute.

Aquincum Institute of Technology

I was awarded an opportunity to take courses at Gabor Bojar's private college. I took courses in computer vision, computational biology, enterpreneurship and UX