Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson is the Co-Founder and President of Nuro, a self-driving technology company bringing scalable autonomy to robotaxis, commercial fleets, and personally owned vehicles. Nuro’s mission is to make autonomy accessible to all. Before starting Nuro in 2016, Dave was a principal engineer on Google’s self-driving program (now Waymo), where he led the computer vision, machine learning, behavior prediction, and scene understanding teams. He also led the planning group for Carnegie Mellon University’s winning team in the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge, a competition that helped launch the modern AV industry. Dave holds more than 100 patents and has published over 60 papers on robotics and machine learning. He earned his MS and PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.