David Stavens

David Stavens is an American entrepreneur and scientist. He was co-founder and CEO of Udacity; a co-creator of Stanley, the winning self-driving car of the DARPA Grand Challenge; and co-founder and CEO of Nines, a creator of AI-enabled FDA-approved medical devices. Stavens has published in the fields of robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and has helped start organizations with an aggregate market value of over $30 billion.

David Stavens
Born1982 (age 4142)
CitizenshipUS
Alma materStanford University, Princeton University
Scientific career
FieldsSelf-driving cars, robotics, computer science
InstitutionsUdacity (co-founder), Stanford Self-Driving Car Team (co-founder), Nines (co-founder)
ThesisLearning to Drive: Perception for Autonomous Cars (2011)
Doctoral advisorSebastian Thrun
Other academic advisorsAndrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li
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