ID2013 - 9:45a - Dave Duff - Challenges & Opportunities with Self-Driving Vehicles

Challenges & Opportunities with Self-Driving Vehicles
Speaker
Dave Duff
Tech Lead (Self-Driving Car Project)
Google X lab
Speaker Bio

Dave Duff has been developing cyber-physical systems and products for the defense, entertainment, robotics, and automotive industries his entire career. He has worked on research and concept definition, part design and fabrication, as well as process-tweaking on the manufacturing line. He has a passion for discovering creative, enabling solutions at all phases of development and for exploiting the synergies of complex cyber-physical systems.

Dave received his BSME from Oregon State University in 1985 and Masters in Engineering from Stanford in 1996. He has worked for Lockheed, WET Design, PARC, Tesla Motors and Google. He is currently a technical lead on Google's self-driving car project.