Today’s guest is Paul Newman, Founder & CTO at Oxbotica. In this episode we discuss the complexities of developing AV technology that can be retrofitted onto any vehicle, Oxbotica’s go to market strategy and how they approach partnerships, and Paul’s vision for what the path to commercialization looks like for autonomous passenger vehicles.

Today’s guest is Cibby Pulikkaseril, Founder & CTO at Baraja. In this episode we discuss Baraja’s approach to developing a truly solid state LiDAR, the pathway to building sensors that are cheaper and smaller for mass market adoption, and the company’s go to market strategy over the next few years.

Today’s guest is Tom Jellicoe, Head of Autonomous Technologies at TTP. In this episode we discuss the various approaches to LiDAR seen in the marketplace, a few companies to watch in today’s competitive landscape, and where Tom sees LiDAR technology going in the future.

Today’s guest is Bill Grabowski, Head of North America at ADASKY. In this episode we discuss the merits of thermal imaging cameras, the reasons why they haven’t been widely adopted to date, and ADASKY’s approach to bringing thermal cameras to the ADAS and AV markets.

Today’s guest is John Xin, Co-founder & CEO at Lunewave. In this episode we discuss the entrepreneurial journey and what it’s like to start a company in the AV industry, the pros and cons of various business models within the automotive supplier ecosystem, and how radar fits into the ADAS and AV perception stack.

Today’s guest is Sunny Lee, COO at StradVision. In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of deep learning based vision software for ADAS and AVs, how a company’s decision to use LiDAR has more to do with their business model than their perception stack, and what it’s like being COO at a growth stage AV company.

Today’s guest is Mahmoud Saadat, Co-founder and CEO at Zadar Labs. Before Zadar, Mahmoud earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and developed custom hardware solutions for AVs at Lyft, Zoox and Apple. In this episode we discuss common perception approaches across the industry, the benefits of using imaging radar in the perception stack, and what it has been like as a first time founder starting a company in the AV space.

Today’s guest is Jianxiong Xiao, Founder and CEO at AutoX. Professor X holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT and was the founding director of the Princeton Computer Vision and Robotics Lab. In this episode we discuss how the AV landscape in the Chinese market differs from Silicon Valley, the pros and cons of different AV business models, and the technological complexity of creating fully hardware/software integrated vehicles for commercial use.

Today’s guest is Yaser Khalighi, Founder and CEO at Caliber Data Labs. Yaser is a technologist and entrepreneur who holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford. In this episode we discuss the “needle in a haystack” problem engineers face when developing machine learning models for AVs, and how Caliber helps them cut through the noise to find the most valuable data for training specific scenarios.

Today’s guest is Chris Heiser, Co-founder and CEO of Renovo. In this episode we discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with the massive datasets created by vehicles today, how this data can and will be commercialized in the coming years, and what this all means for software development in the automotive industry.