Sarah Tariq

Sarah Tariq is the VP of Autonomous Driving Software at NVIDIA, where she helps lead NVIDIA’s efforts to create a world class AV platform, NVIDIA Drive. Amongst other things, Sarah’s team is responsible for providing some of the core software pieces of this platform, including the perception, localization, mapping, prediction and planning and control stacks. Before joining NVIDIA, Sarah spent six years at Zoox, helping to deliver autonomous driving in challenging urban environments, including downtown San Francisco. At Zoox, Sarah worked on delivering critical components of the perception stack, leading the vision and perception teams, and helping lead cross functional efforts to improve the driving capabilities and performance of the Zoox vehicle. Prior to this, Sarah spent a decade working on several areas including real-time simulation and rendering, performance optimization for high performance computing and super computers, and computer vision.