Jose Alvarez is a research director at NVIDIA, leading the perception research for the Autonomous Driving team. The main focus of the team and his interests are the scalability of deep learning and its applicability to autonomous driving. Prior to NVIDIA, he was a research scientist at TRI and NICTA, and worked as a postdoc researcher at NYU under Yann LeCunn. He did his PhD in computer vision prior to the deep learning revolution, working on road-scene understanding for autonomous driving when datasets were very scarce and small.