Rodrigo Castellon
Machine Learning Scientist - Autopilot at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolRodrigo Castellon is a machine learning scientist with nine years of experience building research-driven ML systems, currently working on foundation models for Tesla Autopilot in Palo Alto. He combines a strong academic pedigree from Stanford with hands-on research that produced CVPR and ISMIR publications and a TPDP presentation on differentially private synthetic data. Rodrigo has a track record across industry labs—Bloomberg, ByteDance, Amazon—where he delivered practical advances like the first performant generative model for private tabular synthesis and a patent in audio/music ML. His research spans generative diffusion models for dance-from-music, music-audio representation learning, and realistic MIDI synthesis, showing a rare blend of creativity and engineering rigor. Comfortable moving ideas from papers to production, he focuses on scalable, privacy-aware generative solutions for complex audio and sensor domains. Notably, his work often intersects creative ML (dance and music) with privacy and safety considerations relevant to autonomous systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Systems Track), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Systems Track) at Stanford University
English, Spanish, Chinese
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Github Skills (56)
python10
animation10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
gpu10
numpy9
neural-network9
midi-instrument9
tensor9
gpu-acceleration9
latex8
keras8
tensorboard8
autograd8
metadata8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rodrigo-castellon/midi2params
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Code for our paper "Towards realistic MIDI instrument synthesizers" (https://cs.stanford.edu/~rjcaste/research/realistic_midi.pdf)
Contributions:67 commits, 38 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
midi-instrument
mpcrlab/DeepControl
Jul 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:156 commits, 151 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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