Volker Grabe

Senior Staff Software Engineer

Volker Grabe is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Waymo, leading the operational perception and sensor calibration and validation team since January 2017. Prior to Waymo, Volker served as a Software Engineer at Google, contributing to the self-driving car project that transitioned to Waymo, and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, developing algorithms for object and landing site detection in flying vehicles. Additional experience includes a role as a Senior Robotics Engineer at Near Earth Autonomy Inc., focused on software and sensor solutions for low-flying aircraft, and an internship at Robert Bosch GmbH, where Volker worked on mobile robot simulation frameworks. Volker holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science/Robotics from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, with additional studies at the University of Zurich, University of Tübingen, and University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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