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Marco Pavone

Marco Pavone is director of autonomous vehicle research at NVIDIA. His main research interests are in developing methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles and future mobility systems. He is currently on partial leave from Stanford University, where he is an associate professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At Stanford, he is also the director of the Autonomous Systems Laboratory and codirector of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford. He received a doctorate degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010. He is a recipient of a number of awards, including a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, a National Science Foundation Early Career (CAREER) Award, a NASA Early Career Faculty Award and an Early-Career Spotlight Award from the Robotics Science and Systems Foundation. He was identified by the American Society for Engineering Education as one of America’s 20 most highly promising investigators under the age of 40. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

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How AI Is Unlocking Level 4 Autonomous Driving

How AI Is Unlocking Level 4 Autonomous Driving

When the Society of Automotive Engineers established its framework for vehicle autonomy in 2014, it created the industry-standard roadmap for self-driving technology. The levels of automation progress from level 1...