Simon Suo
Co-founder of LlamaIndex; former research scientist at Uber ATG working on self-driving
- Co-founder, LlamaIndex15
Simon Suo is a co-founder of LlamaIndex, the company behind the open-source LlamaIndex framework for building LLM applications over private data. Jerry Liu has written that Suo joined the project about two months after it began, and that together they turned it from an exploratory project into a comprehensive framework. Before LlamaIndex, Suo was a research scientist at Uber ATG and a PhD student at the University of Toronto, publishing on motion forecasting, planning and traffic simulation for self-driving.1256
Research
Suo worked as a research scientist at Uber ATG R&D from September 2018 while a PhD student at the University of Toronto supervised by Raquel Urtasun, with research in machine learning and robotics. Suo's publications include the End-to-end Interpretable Neural Motion Planner (CVPR 2019), work on scene-consistent motion forecasting (ECCV 2020) and streaming LiDAR object detection (CoRL 2020), and TrafficSim (CVPR 2021) as first author.6
LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex's site lists Jerry Liu and Simon Suo as its founders. In a post on building a data framework for LLMs, Liu wrote that Suo joined two months into the project and that they developed it into a framework for connecting a user's private data with LLMs. The MIT-licensed llama_index repository was created in November 2022.124
At the AI.Engineer Summit in October 2023, Suo led a workshop on building, evaluating and optimizing RAG applications for production with LlamaIndex.3
Work
LlamaIndex frameworkOpen-source code
Joined Jerry Liu about two months into the project and helped turn it into a framework for connecting private data with LLMs, according to Liu's post on the company's founding.24
TrafficSim: Learning to Simulate Realistic Multi-Agent Behaviors (external site: simonsuo.com)Published research
First author of a CVPR 2021 paper on learning to simulate realistic multi-agent traffic behavior, with Sebastian Regalado, Sergio Casas and Raquel Urtasun.6
Career timeline
Sep 2018
Began work as a research scientist at Uber ATG.6
2019
Co-authored the End-to-end Interpretable Neural Motion Planner, presented at CVPR 2019.6
2020
Co-authored papers at ECCV 2020 and CoRL 2020 on motion forecasting and LiDAR object detection.6
2021
Presented TrafficSim, on simulating multi-agent traffic behavior, at CVPR 2021 as first author.6
Nov 2022
The llama_index open-source repository, which Suo later co-developed, was created.4
Oct 2023
Led a LlamaIndex workshop on optimizing RAG applications at the AI.Engineer Summit.3
Other documented roles
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