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Jake Lussier

Jake Lussier

Product leader with expertise in AI, robotics, and autonomous systems

San Francisco, California, United States
Joined June 2025
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Summary

Jake Lussier is a seasoned product leader with a strong technical background in artificial intelligence, robotics, and autonomous systems. His career spans from research at Google and Stanford to product development in the self-driving and aerial autonomy sectors, currently holding a product role at Applied Intuition. theorg+1
He possesses deep expertise in autonomous flight technologies, having served as the Autonomous Flight Product Lead at Udacity where he oversaw the development and instruction of the Flying Car Nanodegree program. He also consulted for Embraer on VTOL technologies, demonstrating his commitment to advancing air mobility. udacity+4
Lussier has an entrepreneurial spirit, having founded and served as CEO of Gather, an early-stage automated food retail startup. This experience highlights his ability to identify market needs, build products, and lead a team from conception to prototype launch. theorg+1
Academically, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, where his research focused on robotics, perception, and artificial intelligence. His work included contributions to depth-image segmentation methods and projects like automated patent classification, showcasing his strong foundation in machine learning and computer vision. theorg+4

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Shape Feature Classifiers with Group-Induction Boosting Algorithms / Item Removal Detection in Retail Environments with Neural Nets

May 1, 2018

Contribution to academic work on depth-image segmentation, co-authored with Alex Teichman and Sebastian Thrun, applied in contexts like retail behavior analysis.

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Three Steps to Code Your Own Flying Vehicle

February 1, 2018

An article authored by Jake Lussier for Udacity, outlining the development path for autonomous aerial systems within the Flying Car Nanodegree program.

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Flying Car Nanodegree Program: Applications Open

January 1, 2018

Blog post announcing the opening of applications for Udacity's Flying Car Nanodegree program, highlighting the future of smart transportation.

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