Overview
- Gender
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female
- Investor Type
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Angel
Raquel Urtasun is the Head of Uber ATG Toronto. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, a Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision and a co-founder of the Vector Institute for AI. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor at TTI Chicago. She was also a visiting professor at ETH Zurich during the spring semester of 2010. She received her Ph.D. degree from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2006 and did her postdoc at MIT and UC Berkeley. She is a world leading expert in machine perception for self-driving cars. Her research interests include machine learning, computer vision, robotics and remote sensing. Her lab was selected as an NVIDIA NVAIL lab. She is a recipient of an NSERC EWR Steacie Award, an NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, a Ministry of Education and Innovation Early Researcher Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, an Amazon Faculty Research Award, a Connaught New Researcher Award and two Best Paper Runner up Prizes awarded at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2013 and 2017 respectively.
Personal Investments
Raquel Urtasun has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on
Sep 7, 2021, when Cohere raised $40M.
Jobs
Raquel Urtasun has 2 current jobs including
Chief Scientist Advanced Technologies Group at Uber
,
Founder and CEO at Waabi
and
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Organization Name |
Title At Company |
Start Date |
End Date |
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Uber
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Chief Scientist Advanced Technologies Group |
Jan 1, 2017 |
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Detail |
Waabi
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Founder and CEO |
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Detail |