Dmitri Dolgov — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-CEO of Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company.
Co-founder of the Google self-driving car project, which started in 2009 and became Waymo in 2016.
Inventor with more than 90 patents as of September 2018.
Received an American Ingenuity Award from Smithsonian magazine.
Worked on self-driving cars at Toyota and Stanford's DARPA Grand Challenge team.
Holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Biography

Dmitri Dolgov is the co-chief executive officer of Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company dedicated to making transportation safe and easy. As co-CEO, he is responsible for the overall company strategy, with a primary focus on the development and deployment of the Waymo Driver, which is based on a custom, in-house designed, fully autonomous technology stack.

Dolgov is one of the founders of the Google self-driving car project, which began in 2009 and transitioned into Waymo in 2016.