Katie Washabaugh

Katie Washabaugh is the product marketing manager for autonomous vehicle simulation at NVIDIA, focusing on virtual solutions for real world mobility. A former journalist at publications such as Automotive News and MarketWatch, she joined the NVIDIA team in 2018 as automotive content marketing manager. Katie holds a B.A. in public policy from the University of Michigan and lives in Detroit.
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Posts by Katie Washabaugh

Simulation / Modeling / Design

How to Enhance 3D Gaussian Reconstruction Quality for Simulation

Building truly photorealistic 3D environments for simulation is challenging. Even with advanced neural reconstruction methods such as 3D Gaussian Splatting... 7 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

Accelerating AV Simulation with Neural Reconstruction and World Foundation Models

Autonomous vehicle (AV) stacks are evolving from a hierarchy of discrete building blocks to end-to-end architectures built on foundation models. This transition... 8 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

How to Instantly Render Real-World Scenes in Interactive Simulation

Turning real-world environments into interactive simulation no longer requires days or weeks of work. With NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec and 3DGUT (3D Gaussian with... 7 MIN READ
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Simulation / Modeling / Design

Simplify End-to-End Autonomous Vehicle Development with New NVIDIA Cosmos World Foundation Models

The shift to end-to-end planning models for powering autonomous vehicles (AVs) is increasing the demand for high-quality, physically-based sensor data. These... 7 MIN READ
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Agentic AI / Generative AI

Teaching AVs the Language of Human Driving Behavior with Trajeglish

Much of the communication between drivers goes beyond turn signals and brake lights. Motioning another car to proceed, looking over to see if another driver is... 5 MIN READ
Computer Vision / Video Analytics

Explainer: What Is an AI Cockpit?

Intelligent interiors are transforming transportation. 1 MIN READ