My work lies at the intersection of deep learning, computer vision, and robotics. More details can be found in my CV.

Work

    Staff Software Engineer
    Sep 2025 – present
    General MotorsSunnyvale, CA

    Tech lead of the Perception team. Responsible for the tracking and motion prediction modules within our end-to-end driving model.

    Staff Software Engineer
    Jul 2021 – Sep 2025
    Woven by ToyotaPalo Alto, CA

    TLM of the Vehicle Perception team, leading a team of 10+ engineers.

    ❖ Foundation Sensor Model

    Defined the roadmap and technical direction for Woven’s end-to-end perception system. Owned the development of core capabilities including 3D detection and tracking, multi-sensor fusion, and large-scale foundation training.

    ❖ ML Edge Compute

    Led a cross-functional team to deploy and optimize ML models across multiple hardware platforms (Qualcomm, NVIDIA). Built the end-to-end deployment pipeline from the ground up, including model conversion, quantization, and on-device validation.

    Software Engineer
    May 2021 – Jul 2021
    LyftPalo Alto, CA

    Lyft Level 5 was acquired by Woven by Toyota in July 2021.

    Research Intern
    Aug 2020 – Oct 2020
    MetaSingapore

    High-fidelity 3D eye segmentation using implicit neural representations.

    Software Engineer Intern
    Feb 2020 – Jun 2020
    LyftPalo Alto, CA

    Lidar-based detection model for large vehicles.

Selected Publications

LCD: Learned Cross-domain Descriptors for 2D-3D Matching

Quang-Hieu Pham, Mikaela Angelina Uy, Binh-Son Hua, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Gemma Roig, and Sai-Kit Yeung

In AAAI, 2020.

A*3D: An Autonomous Driving Dataset in Challenging Environment

Quang-Hieu Pham*, Pierre Sevestre*, Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa, Huijing Zhan, Chun Ho Pang, Yuda Chen, Armin Mustafa, Vijay Chandrasekhar, and Jie Lin

In ICRA, 2020.

JSIS3D: Joint Semantic-Instance Segmentation of 3D Point Clouds

Quang-Hieu Pham, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Binh-Son Hua, Gemma Roig, and Sai-Kit Yeung

In CVPR, 2019.

Real-time Progressive 3D Semantic Segmentation for Indoor Scenes

Quang-Hieu Pham, Binh-Son Hua, Duc Thanh Nguyen, and Sai-Kit Yeung

In WACV, 2019.

SceneNN: A Scene Meshes Dataset with aNNotations

Binh-Son Hua, Quang-Hieu Pham, Minh-Khoi Tran, Duc Thanh Nguyen, Lap-Fai Yu, and Sai-Kit Yeung

In 3DV, 2016.