Willi Richert

VP of Engineering

Munich, Bavaria, Germany22 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in machine learning and autonomous driving technologies.
Led mapping initiatives using advanced machine learning techniques.
PhD research recognized for innovative approaches in robotics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and Autonomous Driving expert with a strong focus on mapping technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningMappingAutonomous DrivingNatural Language ProcessingResearch

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAnalyticsAnomaly DetectionCC#C++Computer ScienceComputer VisionData MiningDeep LearningDjangoExtracting road network semanticsFraud DetectionImitation LearningInformation Retrieval

Experience

Lyft

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager, Mapping (Leading Map Making)

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Using machine learning and VLMs on imagery and telemetry from our fleet to build and update maps
Using foundation models (LLMs) to maintain best in class POI dataset

Machine LearningVLMsPOI datasetMapping

Engineering Manager at Level 5, Lyft's self-driving division

Nov 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

Predicting vehicle trajectories
Extracting road network semantics from raw sensor data
Co-Site Lead

Predicting vehicle trajectoriesExtracting road network semanticsAutonomous DrivingMachine Learning

Software Engineer Autonomous Driving

Sep 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

Building maps for autonomous vehicles using computer vision and machine learning.

Computer VisionMachine LearningAutonomous DrivingMapping

Microsoft (bing)

Senior Applied Scientist

Jul 2010 – Aug 2018 · 8 yrs 1 mo · Munich Area, Germany / Seattle Greater Area, US

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Ranking, Natural Language Processing, Anomaly Detection, Analytics, User Modeling, Statistical Machine Translation

Machine LearningDeep LearningNatural Language ProcessingAnomaly DetectionAnalyticsUser Modeling

C-lab (universität paderborn & siemens ag)

Dr. rer. nat.

Jan 2004 – Jul 2010 · 6 yrs 6 mos

Researched machine learning approaches for combining learning and imitation to speed up the learning progress of mobile autonomous robot groups (funded by the German Research Foundation: DFG SPP 1187). The PhD thesis has been nominated for the Best Dissertation Award 2009 of the German Computer Science Society (GI).

Machine LearningImitation LearningMobile Autonomous RobotsResearch