Saswat Panigrahi

Saswat Panigrahi is VP of Strategy, Product Management and Data Science at 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. In this role, Saswat manages Waymo’s engineering and commercial roadmaps across our business lines of ride hailing, long haul trucking and local delivery. Having joined Waymo in 2016, he has been part of Waymo’s launch of the first fully autonomous public commercial launch in Phoenix and the start of fully autonomous operation in San Francisco. Before Waymo, he was the Senior Product Manager at Google, working on Chrome Browser, Chromebooks, and Android. Prior to Google, he held roles of Software Developer, Product Manager and Line Manager at Ericsson in Canada, China and Sweden leading a group of engineers, pre-sales, program and product managers in the last role. He also worked as a research engineer at McGill University. Saswat earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kanpur, his master’s in electrical and computer engineering at McGill University in Canada and Masters in Business Administration from IMD in Switzerland.