Chris Urmson

Chris Urmson is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Aurora. Chris has 19 years of experience developing self-driving and robotics technology. He helped found, led, and later served as Chief Technology Officer for self-driving cars at Alphabet. Before that, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and helped win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. He holds a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon. He is an Angel investor and Board Member of Edge Case Research.