Sonia Poltoratski

Sonia Poltoratski, PhD, is a Data Scientist specializing in perception at Zoox since October 2022, focusing on machine learning verification and validation for autonomous driving. Previously, Sonia served as a Senior Research Scientist at Perceptive Automata, leading a psychophysics team, and as a Psychophysics Engineer, integrating human visual intuition into machine learning models for autonomous vehicles. Sonia's academic background includes a postdoctoral research position at Stanford University in the Vision & Perception Neuroscience Lab and a lab manager role at Harvard University's Vision Sciences Lab. Education includes a B.A.H. in Psychology with a focus on Neuroscience from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University.