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Russian-American businessman (born 1977/1978)
Dmitri Dolgov
Dolgov in 2019
Born 1977 or 1978 (age 45–46)
[1] Nationality American Alma mater Occupation Co-CEO of
Waymo
Dmitri Dolgov is a Russian-American engineer who is the co-chief executive officer of
Waymo . Previously, he worked on
self-driving cars at
Toyota and
Stanford University for the
DARPA Grand Challenge (2007) . Dolgov then joined Waymo's predecessor,
Google 's Self-Driving Car Project, where he served as an engineer and head of software. He has also been
Google X 's lead scientist.
Early life and education
Dmitri Dolgov was born in the
Russian SFSR and raised in
Moscow .
[1] He traveled often, living in Japan for a year and attending high school in the United States before returning to Russia.
[2] Dolgov earned his
Bachelor of Science and
Master of Science degrees in physics and math from the
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1998 and 2000, respectively,
[3] followed by a
Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Michigan .
[4]
[5] He completed postdoctoral research at
Stanford University .
[6]
Career
Early in his career, Dolgov worked on
self-driving cars at
Toyota 's Research Institute and as part of Stanford's team for the
DARPA Grand Challenge (2007) .
[7]
IEEE Intelligent Systems named him one of "AI's 10 to Watch — the Future of AI" in 2008. In 2009, Dolgov joined the original team of
Google 's Self-Driving Car Project, which became
Waymo in 2016.
[5] He started as an
engineer for Google,
[8] then became the lead scientist with
Google X in 2014,
[9] before replacing
Chris Urmson as the autonomous driving project's head of software in 2016.
[1]
[10]
[11] Dolgov became Waymo's
chief technology officer and vice president of engineering, where he oversaw both hardware and software development.
[5]
[12] In 2018, he testified on behalf of Waymo in the company's trade secrets lawsuit against Uber,
[13]
[14] and he and then-
chief executive officer (CEO)
John Krafcik received American Ingenuity Awards from
Smithsonian magazine.
[15]
[16] In 2021, Dolgov and
Tekedra Mawakana became co-CEOs, replacing Krafcik. Dolgov focuses on the company's technology and Mawakana oversees business operations.
[17] In 2021, Pete Bigelow of
Automotive News said the duo have a "somewhat unusual power-sharing arrangement", and have "developed a close working relationship and have been heavily involved in Waymo's most high-profile milestones".
[2]
He is an inventor with more than 90 patents, as of September 2018.
[6]
Personal life
Dolgov is a U.S. citizen.
[1]
Publications
Dolgov, D.; Durfee, E. (2004).
"Graphical models in local, asymmetric multi-agent Markov decision processes" . Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2004. AAMAS 2004 .
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): 956–963.
Musliner, David J.; Goldman, Robert P.; Durfee, Edmund H.; Wu, Jianhui; Dolgov, Dmitri A.; Boddy, Mark S. (2007).
"Coordination of Highly Contingent Plans" . 2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems . IEEE. pp. 418–422.
doi :
10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369846 .
ISBN
978-1-4244-0944-0 .
S2CID
2306390 .
Abbeel, Pieter; Dolgov, Dmitri; Ng, Andrew Y.; Thrun, Sebastian (2008).
"Apprenticeship learning for motion planning with application to parking lot navigation" . 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems . IEEE. pp. 1083–1090.
doi :
10.1109/IROS.2008.4651222 .
ISBN
978-1-4244-2057-5 .
S2CID
4639568 .
James, Michael; Dolgov, Dmitri (2008).
"Local line segments as primitives for scene understanding" . 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems . IEEE. p. 4188.
doi :
10.1109/IROS.2008.4651243 .
ISBN
978-1-4244-2057-5 .
S2CID
8872477 .
Kummerle, Rainer; Hahnel, Dirk; Dolgov, Dmitri; Thrun, Sebastian; Burgard, Wolfram (2009).
"Autonomous driving in a multi-level parking structure" . 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation . IEEE. pp. 3395–3400.
doi :
10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152365 .
ISBN
978-1-4244-2788-8 .
S2CID
12050812 .
Dolgov, Dmitri; Thrun, Sebastian (2009).
"Autonomous driving in semi-structured environments: Mapping and planning" . 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation . pp. 3407–3414.
doi :
10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152682 .
ISBN
978-1-4244-2788-8 .
S2CID
9016713 .
See also
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^
a
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c
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"Look, no hands! Test driving a Google car" .
Reuters .
Archived from the original on March 27, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2021 .
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b
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ISSN
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Archived from the original on June 21, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2021 .
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"Waymo CEO John Krafcik Is Leaving the Google Self-Driving Affiliate" .
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ISSN
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Archived from the original on June 21, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2021 .
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"Google's self-driving cars hit 2 million miles" .
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"The C.E.O. of the self-driving car company Waymo will step down after more than 5 years" . The New York Times .
Archived from the original on April 27, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021 .
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"Waymo v. Uber Trial Opens With a Battle of Sports Metaphors" . The New York Times .
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OCLC
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Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2021 .
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"Janelle Monáe and Parkland activists among winners of American Ingenuity Awards" . The Washington Post .
ISSN
0190-8286 .
OCLC
2269358 .
Archived from the original on March 17, 2021. Retrieved May 24, 2021 .
^
Smithsonian (
Smithsonian Institution ):
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"CEO of Google's self-driving car spinoff steps down from job" .
Daily Herald .
Associated Press .
Archived from the original on April 2, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021 .
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