Drago Anguelov

Drago Anguelov (Waymo) - MIT Self-Driving Cars

Drago Anguelov, Kieran Strobel

Waymo commemorates a decade of autonomous driving and over 10 million public road miles by advancing its core AI architecture of perception, prediction, and planning to address complex edge cases through a hybrid machine learning and rule-based system. The company fuels this development with an "ML Factory" that utilizes active learning, automated neural architecture search, and a massive simulation environment capable of generating 7 billion virtual miles daily to validate safety across diverse scenarios. Future efforts focus on scaling a single adaptable model to new cities without retraining, relying on rigorous testing protocols and self-improving algorithms to gradually achieve widespread commercial deployment.