Andrew Irish, Author at Uber Engineering Blog

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Andrew Irish is a senior software engineer on Uber’s Sensing, Inference, and Research team.

Engineering Blog Articles

How Uber Beacon Helps Improve Safety for Riders and Drivers

Ted Sumers, Dinesh Ramasamy, Andrew Irish, and Andrew Beinstein

December 21, 2018

The Uber Beacon leverages visual signaling, an accelerometer, and a gyroscope to improve the accuracy of in-app safety products like our automatic crash detection feature.

Rethinking GPS: Engineering Next-Gen Location at Uber

Danny Iland, Andrew Irish, Upamanyu Madhow, and Brian Sandler

April 19, 2018

Uber’s Sensing, Inference, and Research team released a software upgrade for GPS on Android phones that significantly improves location accuracy in urban environments.