Dmitri Dolgov

Not to be confused with Dumitru Dolgov.

Dmitri Dolgov
Dolgov in 2019
Born	1977or1978(age 47–48) [1] Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (BS, MS) University of Michigan (PhD)
Occupation	Co-CEO of Waymo

Dmitri Dolgov is a Russian-American engineer who is the co-chief executive officer of Waymo. Previously, he worked on self-driving cars at Toyota and Stanford University for the DARPA Grand Challenge (2007). Dolgov then joined Waymo's predecessor, Google's Self-Driving Car Project, where he was an engineer and head of software. He has also been Google X's lead scientist.

Early life and education

Dmitri Dolgov was born in the Russian SFSR and raised in Moscow. ^[1] He traveled often, living in Japan for a year and attending high school in the United States before returning to Russia. ^[2] Dolgov earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in physics and math from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1998 and 2000, respectively, ^[3] followed by a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan. ^{[4] [5]} He completed postdoctoral research at Stanford University. ^[6]

Career

Early in his career, Dolgov worked on self-driving cars at Toyota's Research Institute and as part of Stanford's team for the DARPA Grand Challenge (2007). ^[7] IEEE Intelligent Systems named him one of "AI's 10 to Watch — the Future of AI" in 2008. In 2009, Dolgov joined the original team of Google's Self-Driving Car Project, which became Waymo in 2016. ^[5] He started as an engineer for Google, ^[8] then became the lead scientist with Google X in 2014, ^[9] before replacing Chris Urmson as the autonomous driving project's head of software in 2016. ^{[1] [10] [11]} Dolgov became Waymo's chief technology officer and vice president of engineering, where he oversaw both hardware and software development. ^{[5] [12]} In 2018, he testified on behalf of Waymo in the company's trade secrets lawsuit against Uber. ^{[13] [14]} He and then-chief executive officer (CEO) John Krafcik received American Ingenuity Awards from Smithsonian magazine. ^{[15] [16]} In 2021, Dolgov and Tekedra Mawakana became co-CEOs, replacing Krafcik. Dolgov focuses on the company's technology and Mawakana oversees business operations. ^[17] In 2021, Pete Bigelow of Automotive News said the duo have a "somewhat unusual power-sharing arrangement", and have "developed a close working relationship and have been heavily involved in Waymo's most high-profile milestones". ^[2]

He is an inventor with more than 90 patents, as of September 2018. ^[6]

Personal life

Dolgov is a U.S. citizen. ^[1]

Publications

• Dolgov, D.; Durfee, E. (2004). "Graphical models in local, asymmetric multi-agent Markov decision processes". Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2004. AAMAS 2004. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): 956–963.
• Musliner, David J.; Goldman, Robert P.; Durfee, Edmund H.; Wu, Jianhui; Dolgov, Dmitri A.; Boddy, Mark S. (2007). "Coordination of Highly Contingent Plans". 2007 International Conference on Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems. IEEE. pp. 418–422. doi:10.1109/KIMAS.2007.369846. ISBN   978-1-4244-0944-0. S2CID   2306390.
• Abbeel, Pieter; Dolgov, Dmitri; Ng, Andrew Y.; Thrun, Sebastian (2008). "Apprenticeship learning for motion planning with application to parking lot navigation". 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE. pp. 1083–1090. doi:10.1109/IROS.2008.4651222. ISBN   978-1-4244-2057-5. S2CID   4639568.
• James, Michael; Dolgov, Dmitri (2008). "Local line segments as primitives for scene understanding". 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE. p. 4188. doi:10.1109/IROS.2008.4651243. ISBN   978-1-4244-2057-5. S2CID   8872477.
• Kummerle, Rainer; Hahnel, Dirk; Dolgov, Dmitri; Thrun, Sebastian; Burgard, Wolfram (2009). "Autonomous driving in a multi-level parking structure". 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. IEEE. pp. 3395–3400. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152365. ISBN   978-1-4244-2788-8. S2CID   12050812.
• Dolgov, Dmitri; Thrun, Sebastian (2009). "Autonomous driving in semi-structured environments: Mapping and planning". 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. pp. 3407–3414. doi:10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152682. ISBN   978-1-4244-2788-8. S2CID   9016713.

See also

• List of University of Michigan alumni

References

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14. Marshall, Aarian (February 6, 2018). "Waymo v. Uber's Big Question: What on Earth Is a Trade Secret, Anyway?". Wired . Condé Nast. OCLC   24479723. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
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16. Smithsonian (Smithsonian Institution):
    • "2018 American Ingenuity Award Winners". Smithsonian Magazine. 2018. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
    • Vanderbilt, Tom (December 2018). "Why Waymo's Fleet of Self-Driving Cars Is Finally Ready for Prime Time". Archived from the original on March 30, 2021. Retrieved May 21, 2021.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
17. Liedtke, Michael (April 2, 2021). "CEO of Google's self-driving car spinoff steps down from job". Daily Herald . Associated Press. Archived from the original on April 2, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.

External links

• Dmitri Dolgov at Bloomberg News
• Dmitri Dolgov at CNBC
• Dmitri Dolgov at Computer History Museum
• Korosec, Kirsten (February 8, 2019). "Waymo CTO on the company's past, present and what comes next". TechCrunch .
• Tabatabai, Arman; Korosec, Kirsten (July 23, 2019). "The road ahead for Waymo, AV engineering and mobility, with Waymo CTOD Dmitri Dolgov". TechCrunch.