Awards & Recognition
★American Ingenuity Award from Smithsonian magazine (with John Krafcik)
★IEEE Intelligent Systems 'AI's 10 to Watch - The Future of AI' (2008)
★Fast Company's 2025 World's Most Innovative Companies - Waymo ranked #1
Notable Facts
→Co-CEO and co-founder of Waymo, the world's leading autonomous driving company valued at $126 billion
→One of the original founding engineers of Google's self-driving car project (2009)
→Previously worked on Stanford's DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle team
→Led Stanford team that won 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge with Stanley robot car
→PhD in Computer Science from University of Michigan, BSc/MSc from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
→Waymo operates 500,000+ paid rides per week across 10+ US cities
→Company has logged over 200 million fully autonomous miles
→Testified in high-profile Waymo vs Uber trade secrets lawsuit (2018)
→Has published multiple research papers on autonomous driving and robotics