Tony Duan

I'm currently at Tesla. I'm interested in probabilistic machine learning and computer vision.

Contact

Email tonyduan (at) cs.stanford.edu
Twitter @tonyduan_

Experience

2020 - Now Machine Learning, Tesla Autopilot
2019 - 2020 Residency, Microsoft Research
2017 - 2019 MS in CS, Stanford
2013 - 2017 BS in EECS, UC Berkeley

Blog

Diffusion Models from Scratch (2023). [HTML] [Code]
Includes complete derivations summarizing a few dozen of the most relevant papers.

Research

Randomized Smoothing of All Shapes and Sizes
Greg Yang*, Tony Duan*, Edward J. Hu, Hadi Salman, Ilya Razenshteyn, Jerry Li
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020 [Paper] [Code]

NGBoost: Natural Gradient Boosting for Probabilistic Regression
Tony Duan*, Anand Avati*, Daisy Ding, Khanh Thai, Sanjay Basu, Andrew Ng, Alejandro Schuler
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020 [Paper] [Code]

Countdown Regression: Sharp and Calibrated Survival Predictions
Anand Avati, Tony Duan, Sharon Zhou, Kenneth Jung, Nigam Shah, Andrew Ng
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2019 [Paper] [Code]

* Equal contribution.

I've reviewed for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR.

Patents

Vision-based ML model for lane connectivity in autonomous or semi-autonomous driving
Patrick Cho, Ethan Knight, Tony Duan, Alex Xiao, Jason Lee
Tesla [Patent] [AI Day 2022]

Vision-based ML model for aggregation of static objects and systems for autonomous driving
Micael Carvalho, John Emmons, Patrick Cho, Bradley Emi, Saachi Jain, Nishant Desai, Tony Duan
Tesla [Patent] [AI Day 2021]

Teaching

I've had opportunities to TA the following courses:

CS 229 (Machine Learning) at Stanford: Fall 2018.
CS 221 (Artificial Intelligence) at Stanford: Fall 2017.
CS 170 (Algorithms) at UC Berkeley: Fall 2016 and Spring 2017.