Jose M. Alvarez is a research director at NVIDIA, leading the Autonomous Vehicle Applied Research team. The team maximizes the impact of the latest research advances on the AV product. Research areas include model-centric and data-centric deep learning toward more efficient and scalable systems. Jose completed his Ph.D. in computer science in Barcelona, specializing in road-scene understanding for autonomous driving when datasets were very limited. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at NYU under Yann LeCunn.