Chen Wu is the Head of Perception at Waymo, a leader in developing safe and reliable self-driving technology. She leads a team of talented engineers and researchers who build cutting-edge machine learning techniques and transform them into real-time perception systems powering Waymo’s autonomous vehicles. Prior to Waymo, Chen’s career explored different applications of technology. She led camera technology development for Google Glass and applied ML for 3D video generation at YouTube. Chen holds a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Control Theory from Tsinghua University (China).