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Sterling Anderson At A Glance:
Sterling Anderson is a world expert in autonomous vehicle technology. In the mid 2000's, his work in shared autonomy paved the way for broad advances in cooperative control of human-machine systems. Sterling led Tesla's Model X program from its first development build through launch and served as the Director of Tesla Autopilot from its release on the first generation platform through design, development, and launch of the second.
Sterling Anderson is a world expert in autonomous vehicle technology. In the late 2000’s, he developed the MIT Intelligent Co-Pilot, a shared autonomy framework that paved the way for broad advances in cooperative control of human-machine systems. In 2014, he joined Tesla, where he lead the design, development, and launch of the Tesla Model X. Following the launch of the Model X, Sterling led the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot. In early 2017, he co-founded Aurora with the former leaders of Google’s and Uber’s respective self-driving programs to bring the benefits of this technology to market safely, quickly and broadly.
Sterling holds four patents and over a dozen publications in autonomous vehicle systems. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University and an MS and PhD in robotics from MIT.
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