Dizan Vasquez

Dizan Vasquez has extensive work experience in the technology industry. Dizan most recently worked at Applied Intuition as an engineer starting in 2023. Prior to that, they worked for Cruise as a staff engineer for planning from 2021 to 2023. Before that, they were at Voyage as an engineering manager for decision making and later as a senior research engineer from 2018 to 2021. Dizan also worked at Apple as a senior research engineer from 2016 to 2018. Earlier in their career, they held roles as a researcher at INRIA from 2012 to 2015, a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Freiburg in 2012, a professor at ITESM Campus Cuernavaca from 2010 to 2011, and a professor-researcher at CENIDET in 2011. Dizan also worked as an associated researcher at ETH Zurich from 2007 to 2009 and as chief information officer at Liberty Mexico Seguros from 1996 to 2001.

Dizan Vasquez obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Tecnológico de Monterrey in 1993. Then, they pursued a Master's degree in Systems Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey for one year starting in 2001. Later, from 2003 to 2004, they completed a DEA in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Robotics from Grenoble INP - Ensimag. Dizan also earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and Robotics from Grenoble INP - Ensimag from 2004 to 2007.