Philip Koopman
Carnegie Mellon emeritus; expert on self-driving car and embedded software safety.
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- Philip Koopman is faculty emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
- He works on the safety of self-driving vehicles and embedded system software.
- His books include How Safe Is Safe Enough? and The UL 4600 Guidebook.
- He has retired from the university and takes no new students.
Key facts
- Role
- Faculty emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University1
- Field
- Embedded system software and safety; self-driving vehicles1
- Books
- Better Embedded System Software (2010/2021); How Safe Is Safe Enough? (2022); The UL 4600 Guidebook (2022); Understanding Checksums and Cyclic Redundancy Checks (2024); Embodied AI Safety (2025)1
- Writes
- Autonomous System Safety on Substack; the Safe Autonomy blog is now archival1
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