Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist renowned for pioneering self-driving car technology, co-founding Google X and Google's self-driving car project (now Waymo), and leading the Stanford team to victory in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.[1][2][4] He is the co-founder and chairman of Udacity, an online education platform, and former Google VP and Fellow, as well as a professor at Stanford and other universities.[1][3][6] Thrun has published over 350 papers and 11 books on robotics, AI, and machine learning, earning election to the National Academy of Engineering and German Academy of Sciences at age 39.[2][3][6]