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Meet Ashok Elluswamy: First employee to be hired by Elon Musk for Tesla's Autopilot team

FP Staff • January 3, 2022, 08:30:11 IST
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Before joining Tesla, Elluswamy was associated with Volkswagen Electronic Research Lab and WABCO Vehicle Control System

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Meet Ashok Elluswamy: First employee to be hired by Elon Musk for Tesla's Autopilot team

Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk, who has been using social media to recruit people, has disclosed that Indian-origin Ashok Elluswamy was the first employee to be hired for his electric vehicle company’s Autopilot team. Ashok was the first person recruited from my tweet saying that Tesla is starting an Autopilot team! Musk said in a tweet in reply to a video of his interview. He said that Ashok is actually the head of Autopilot engineering.

Ashok was the first person recruited from my tweet saying that Tesla is starting an Autopilot team!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2021

“Andrej is director of AI; People often give me too much credit and give Andrej too much credit. The Tesla Autopilot AI team is extremely talented. Some of the smartest people in the world, he said. Ashok Elluswamy Before joining Tesla, Elluswamy was associated with Volkswagen Electronic Research Lab and WABCO Vehicle Control System. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai and a Master’s degree in Robotics System Development from Carnegie Mellon University. Artificial Intelligence Musk recently tweeted that Tesla is looking for hardcore Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers who care about solving problems that directly affect people’s lives in a major way.

As always, Tesla is looking for hardcore AI engineers who care about solving problems that directly affect people’s lives in a major way.https://t.co/0B5toOOHcj

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 6, 2021
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