Raquel Urtasun
Raquel Urtasun | |
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| Born | 30 January 1976 |
| Alma mater | Public University of Navarre École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne MIT UC Berkeley |
| Known for | Self-driving cars, AI |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, AI and Remote Sensing |
| Institutions | University of Toronto ETH Zurich |
| Thesis | Motion Models for Robust 3D Human Body Tracking (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Pascal Vitali Fua |
| Website | cs |
Raquel Urtasun OOnt (born 30 January 1976) is a Spanish-Canadian computer scientist, entrepreneur, and professor at the University of Toronto. She is the founder and CEO of Waabi, a company developing autonomous driving technology using artificial intelligence. Urtasun's research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence to physical systems, to make vehicles and other machines perceive the world more accurately and efficiently.