Raquel Urtasun

Raquel Urtasun
Born (1976-01-30) 30 January 1976
Alma materPublic University of Navarre
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
MIT
UC Berkeley
Known forSelf-driving cars, AI
Scientific career
FieldsMachine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, AI and Remote Sensing
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
ETH Zurich
ThesisMotion Models for Robust 3D Human Body Tracking (2006)
Doctoral advisorPascal Vitali Fua
Websitecs.toronto.edu/~urtasun

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.