Chris Urmson

Board Member at Edge Case Research

Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Aurora, which is building self-driving technology to deliver the benefits of the future of transportation safely, quickly, and broadly. Chris has been instrumental in instigating and advancing the development of self-driving vehicles over the past 15 years. Before founding Aurora, Chris helped build Google’s self-driving car program and served as its CTO. He was a faculty member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked with house-size trucks, drove robots around in deserts, and was the technical director of the DARPA Urban and Grand Challenge teams. He earned his PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and his BSc in computer engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1998.


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Edge Case Research

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Edge Case Research was formed by leading autonomy and software safety experts from Carnegie Mellon University who believe that safety should be baked into all software products from the ground up. Founded by people who were first involved in autonomous vehicle safety as far back as the late 1990s, ECR helps customers in the autonomous vehicle and robotics industries to tackle the thorny problems of safe perception, planning, and actuation.


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