
Katie Washabaugh
Katie Washabaugh is NVIDIA’s Product Marketing Manager for Autonomous Vehicle Simulation, 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.
Into the Omniverse: World Foundation Models Advance Autonomous Vehicle Simulation and Safety
Simulated driving environments enable engineers to safely and efficiently train, test and validate autonomous vehicles (AVs) across countless real-world and edge-case scenarios without the risks and costs of physical testing…. Read Article
NVIDIA Releases New AI Models and Developer Tools to Advance Autonomous Vehicle Ecosystem
Autonomous vehicle (AV) stacks are evolving from many distinct models to a unified, end-to-end architecture that executes driving actions directly from sensor data. This transition to using larger models is… Read Article
NVIDIA Unveils Open Physical AI Dataset to Advance Robotics and Autonomous Vehicle Development
Teaching autonomous robots and vehicles how to interact with the physical world requires vast amounts of high-quality data. To give researchers and developers a head start, NVIDIA is releasing a… Read Article
Building Smarter Autonomous Machines: NVIDIA Announces Early Access for Omniverse Sensor RTX
Generative AI and foundation models let autonomous machines generalize beyond the operational design domains on which they’ve been trained. Using new AI techniques such as tokenization and large language and… Read Article
From Concept to Compliance, MITRE Digital Proving Ground Will Accelerate Validation of Autonomous Vehicles
The path to safe, widespread autonomous vehicles is going digital. MITRE — a government-sponsored nonprofit research organization — today announced its partnership with Mcity at the University of Michigan to… Read Article
Safe Travels: NVIDIA DRIVE OS Receives Premier Safety Certification
To make transportation safer, autonomous vehicles (AVs) must have processes and underlying systems that meet the highest standards. NVIDIA DRIVE OS is the operating system for in-vehicle accelerated computing powered… Read Article
‘23 and AV: Transportation Industry to Drive Into Metaverse, Cloud Technologies
As the autonomous vehicle industry enters the next year, it will start navigating into even greater technology frontiers. Next-generation vehicles won’t just be defined by autonomous driving capabilities. Everything from… Read Article
Hittin’ the Sim: NVIDIA’s Matt Cragun on Conditioning Autonomous Vehicles in Simulation
Training, testing and validating autonomous vehicles requires a continuous pipeline — or data factory — to introduce new scenarios and refine deep neural networks. A key component of this process… Read Article
A Force to Be Reckoned With: Lucid Group Reveals Gravity SUV, Built on NVIDIA DRIVE
Meet the electric SUV with magnetic appeal. Lucid Group unveiled its next act, the Gravity SUV, during the AutoMobility Los Angeles auto show. The automaker also launched additional versions of… Read Article