Dmitri Dolgov — CEO
Dmitri Dolgov is the co-CEO of Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they’re going. Dmitri is one of the founders of the Google self-driving car project, which began in 2009 and became Waymo in 2016. As co-CEO, Dmitri is responsible for overall company strategy, with his primary focus on the development and deployment of the Waymo Driver, based on a custom, in-house designed, fully autonomous technology stack. Dmitri previously served as Waymo’s CTO. Prior to Waymo, Dmitri worked on autonomous driving efforts at Toyota and at Stanford as part of Stanford's DARPA Urban Challenge team. Dmitri received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics and Math from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Automotive Technology with a focus on autonomous systems.
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Experience: 26 yrs 4 mos
Career Highlights
- Co-founder of Waymo and Google self-driving car project.
- Expert in autonomous driving technology and software engineering.
- PhD in Computer Science with a focus on AI and multi-agent systems.
Work Experience
Waymo
Co-CEO (5 yrs 2 mos)
CTO (4 yrs 4 mos)
Distinguished Software Engineer (7 yrs 10 mos)
Toyota Research Insitute
Sr. Research Scientist (2 yrs 5 mos)
Stanford & Toyota Research Institute
Postdoctoral Researcher (7 mos)
University of Michigan
Grad student (6 yrs)
Education
PhD at University of Michigan
MS at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)