Our Team
We are entrepreneurs, data scientists, mathematicians, and operators.
We are entrepreneurs, data scientists, mathematicians, and operators.
Boris Sofman is an experienced technology leader with roots in AI and robotics. He currently leads Waymo’s autonomous trucking and Waymo-wide reliability efforts to enable safe and capable autonomous driving at scale. He previously led Waymo’s perception and machine learning infrastructure teams and co-led the launch of the 5th generation Waymo Driver platform toward its driverless debut in San Francisco in 2022. Fully driverless cars in the Waymo One ride-hailing network have now driven millions of miles across San Francisco, Phoenix, and Los Angeles. Prior to this, Boris spent ten years growing a consumer robotics company, Anki, as they released innovative consumer entertainment products and shipped over 3.7M devices and robots since 2013 with annual global revenues approaching $100M. Boris holds a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.