Edwin Olson — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as CEO and Co-Founder of May Mobility, an autonomous shuttle service company, since 2017.
Co-founded May Mobility in early 2017 to develop and operate autonomous shuttle services.
Developed AprilTag, a two-dimensional barcode-based fiducial marker system for visual localization and mapping.
Co-developed the Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) framework for autonomous vehicles.
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, where he founded the APRIL Robotics Laboratory.
Led 'Team Michigan' to win the 2010 Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC), securing a $750,000 prize.
Holds a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Biography

Edwin Olson is an American academic, roboticist, and business executive, best known as the CEO and Co-Founder of May Mobility. Since co-founding the company in early 2017, Olson has overseen its development and operation of autonomous shuttle services. May Mobility launched its first deployment in Detroit in 2018 and has since expanded its low-speed, electric shuttles to other U.S.