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Chris Urmson

Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Aurora; previously CTO of the Google self-driving project and technical director of CMU's DARPA Grand/Urban Challenge teams. PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon.

Canadian · 1 current role · 1 founding

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Aurora Innovationverified→
Founder
American autonomous-trucking company (Nasdaq: AUR), founded 2017 by [Chris Urmson](/people/chris-urmson), [Sterling Anderson](/people/sterling-anderson), and [D
SPAC IPO (Reinvent Technology Partners Y) · $1.8B25 verified deployments · Aurora Driver on International LT (2nd-gen) at Dallas →1 incident3 models
Waymoverified→
Former CTO (Google self-driving project)
Waymo is Alphabet's autonomous driving subsidiary.
Series D · $16B52 verified deployments · Waymo Driver (6th gen) at Toronto →1236 incidents4 models

Current roles (1)

Aurora Innovation Co-founder, CEO & ChairmanSecondary-verified

Foundings (1)

Aurora Innovationfounded 2017-01-01cofounder

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Co-founders (2)

Drew Bagnell co-founded Aurora Innovation2017-01-01
Sterling Anderson co-founded Aurora Innovation2017-01-01

Board seats (1)

Aurora Innovation chair

Former / Previously (1)

Waymo CTO (Google self-driving project)Secondary-verified

Education (2)

Carnegie Mellon University PhD, Robotics
University of Manitoba BSc, Computer Engineering

Sources (1)

https://ir.aurora.tech/

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Companies (1)

Aurora Innovation

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