About Sebastian
Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is a German-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and educator. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. His career includes leadership of the Stanford Racing Team's Stanley vehicle, which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicle competition. At Google, he co-founded Google X and led Project Chauffeur, which developed into Waymo. He co-founded Udacity, an online education company, and taught a free online AI course at Stanford that attracted approximately 160,000 students from 190 countries, contributing to the MOOC movement.
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EntrepreneurExpert / AcademicScientistMotivationalAutonomous Driving SystemsDeep LearningEVTOL AircraftInteractive RobotsMOOCsOnline Education
Known for
- autonomous vehicles
- robotics
- artificial intelligence
- online education
- DARPA Grand Challenge winner (2005)
- co-founder of Google X
- co-founder of Udacity
- probabilistic robotics
- Waymo (formerly Project Chauffeur)
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