Steffen Gutmann

Steffen Gutmann is a highly experienced software engineer and robotics expert specializing in motion planning for self-driving cars, currently serving as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Waymo since January 2017. Prior to this, Steffen held positions including Staff Software Engineer at Google/X, where contributions were made to the self-driving car initiative, and Principal Robotics Scientist at Evolution Robotics, focusing on the development of robotic technologies and the implementation of the Vector Field SLAM algorithm. Earlier career roles included Team Manager at ITK Engineering, Senior Research Scientist at Sony Corporation, and contributions to academic institutions as a lecturer at the University of Tokyo and a PhD student at the University of Freiburg. Steffen holds a Doctorate in Computer Science and Robot Navigation from the University of Freiburg and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Ulm University.