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  • Before joining Tesla, Elluswamy was associated with Volkswagen Electronic Research Lab
  • He holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai

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How Musk hired Ashok Elluswamy via Twitter application, now Musk is looking for AI leads

Indian origin Ashok Elluswamy was Tesla's Autopilot Team's first employee

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      Elon Musk the Technoking of Tesla took to Twitter once again for a big reveal, this time to disclose how he hired Indian-origin Ashok Elluswamy as the first employee to work at Tesla's autopilot team. Elluswamy is now the head of Autopilot engineering.

      "Ashok was the first person recruited from my tweet saying that Tesla is starting an Autopilot team!" Mr Musk said in a tweet in reply to a video on his interview.

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      The eccentric electric vehicle billionaire had resorted to Twitter in 2015 to advertise and invite people to join Tesla's Autopilot team.

      Before joining Tesla, Elluswamy was associated with Volkswagen Electronic Research Lab and WABCO Vehicle Control System.

      He holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai and a Master's degree in Robotics System Development from Carnegie Mellon University.

      Musk recently tweeted that Tesla is looking for hardcore Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineers who care about solving problems that directly affect people’s lives in a major way.

      The job application was simple with interested candidates were asked to fill fields like name, email, exceptional work done in software, hardware, or AI and drop their resume in the PDF format

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