Speaker Name: Jesse Levinson

Position: Zoox Chief technology Officer

Jesse Levinson is the co-founder and CTO of Zoox, an independent Amazon subsidiary company creating ground-up, fully autonomous electric vehicles for point-to-point mobility in cities.

Jesse is responsible for overseeing the company’s software, artificial intelligence, computing, and sensing platforms.

Jesse graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and completed his Computer Science Ph.D. and Postdoc under Sebastian Thrun at Stanford University. He developed algorithms for the $1M-winning entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and led the self-driving car team for five years.

Levinson also co-created Pro HDR, the first HDR app for smartphones.

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FOCUS AREAS

• Artificial Intelligence

• Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)

• Autonomous Electric Vehicles

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