# Jayant Thatte

> Researcher in computer vision, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, and image processing

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jayant

I am a software researcher at Waymo (Alphabet) working on self-driving cars. I graduated with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. My areas of interest include virtual reality, computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### PHD Candidate @ Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Research group: Image, Video and Multimedia Systems
Advisor: Bernd Girod
Dissertation: Cinematic virtual reality with head-motion parallax
Keywords: Virtual reality, computer vision, image processing

### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cupertino, CA, USA
Keywords: Deep learning, computer vision, image processing
Used a combination of convolutional neural networks and classical methods to design an algorithm for high-quality novel view synthesis for applications that have constraints on the available computational capacity

### Quantitative Analyst Intern @ Barclays Investment Bank
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Singapore
Keywords: Machine learning, statistics, time-series analysis
Developed high-frequency trading algorithms for predicting market movements, trade profitability, hedging strategies

### Visiting Researcher @ TU Dresden
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Dresden, Saxony, Germany


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2020

### Joint Bachelor and Master of Technology (B.Tech.-M.Tech.) in Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jayant-thatte
- Website: https://web.stanford.edu/~jayantt/
- Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pSNU6c8AAAAJ&hl=en

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Last updated: 2026-03-23