Dmitri Dolgov
Co-CEO of Waymo; on Google's self-driving car project from its start in 2009.
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- Dmitri Dolgov is a Russian-American engineer and co-CEO of Waymo, a post he has shared with Tekedra Mawakana from 2021.
- He joined the original team of Google's self-driving car project in 2009, which became Waymo in 2016.
- He was the project's head of software and then Waymo's chief technology officer.
- Before Google he worked on self-driving cars at Toyota's research institute and on Stanford's 2007 DARPA challenge team.
Key facts
- Role
- Co-CEO of Waymo, with Tekedra Mawakana, from 20211
- Before
- Google self-driving car project from 2009: engineer, Google X lead scientist (2014), head of software (2016); then Waymo CTO and vice president of engineering1
- Earlier
- Toyota Research Institute of North America; Stanford team for the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge1
- Education
- BS (1998) and MS (2000) in physics and mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; PhD in computer science, University of Michigan; postdoc at Stanford1
- Recognition
- IEEE Intelligent Systems, AI's 10 to Watch (2008); more than 90 patents (as of September 2018)1
Roles
Leads
- WaymoOrganization
co-CEO · since Apr 2021 source on Waymo
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