Tony Duan

I'm currently at Tesla working on FSD and Optimus. I'm interested in machine learning.

Contact

Email tony (at) tonyduan.com
X @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.

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.