Self-Driven Women
Building a community of women developing the future of mobility
Our most recent event:
Join Waymo for a virtual event with the leaders of the MIT-PITT-RW autonomous racing team for a conversation about the current state of autonomous driving technology at the university level and how you can get involved no matter if you’re a student or already well into your professional career journey.
Speakers
MIT-PITT-RW Team Advisor
Nayana is a recent Computer Engineering graduate from the University of Pittsburgh, She was the previous Pitt General Manager as well as club president for the Pitt Robotics and Automation Society. Her areas of interest are in robotics and automated systems — specifically in the areas of motion planning and multi-agent systems — as well as entrepreneurship. To gain experience in these fields, Nayana has been a Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University’s Biorobotics Lab for the past three years and interned at IAM Robotics where she worked on the Mobility and Controls team.
MIT Driverless General Manager
Cindy is a first-year MBA candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is the co-captain and general manager of MIT Driverless.
Before pursuing her MBA, Cindy held a multitude of impressive positions while gaining practical business experience, most recently as a Corporate Development and Strategy intern at TuSimple and as part of the Strategy and operations team at Arnie, a fin-tech startup that builds each user a unique portfolio with companies that align with their sustainable and ethical values. She has also worked as an Equity Research Associate at MFS Investment Management, where she invested in various automotive and technology companies.
Product Manager at Waymo
Eric is a Product Manager at Waymo where he works with teams building software that makes sure our vehicles exhibit safe and comfortable behaviors with cyclists, motorcyclists, and other micromobility users.
Prior to Waymo, Eric was a Product Manager at Uber ATG where he drove the technical development and commercialization strategy for many core technologies. He also worked as a Robotics Engineer at Facebook, specializing in human-robot interaction, mobile manipulation, and multi-agent systems.
Eric received his B.Sc in Electric Engineering from the University of Southern California where he focused on robotics (human-robot interaction and planning under uncertainty) and product design.
MIT-PITT-RW Team Advisor
Nayana is a recent Computer Engineering graduate from the University of Pittsburgh, She was the previous Pitt General Manager as well as club president for the Pitt Robotics and Automation Society. Her areas of interest are in robotics and automated systems — specifically in the areas of motion planning and multi-agent systems — as well as entrepreneurship. To gain experience in these fields, Nayana has been a Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University’s Biorobotics Lab for the past three years and interned at IAM Robotics where she worked on the Mobility and Controls team.
MIT Driverless General Manager
Cindy is a first-year MBA candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she is the co-captain and general manager of MIT Driverless.
Before pursuing her MBA, Cindy held a multitude of impressive positions while gaining practical business experience, most recently as a Corporate Development and Strategy intern at TuSimple and as part of the Strategy and operations team at Arnie, a fin-tech startup that builds each user a unique portfolio with companies that align with their sustainable and ethical values. She has also worked as an Equity Research Associate at MFS Investment Management, where she invested in various automotive and technology companies.
Product Manager at Waymo
Eric is a Product Manager at Waymo where he works with teams building software that makes sure our vehicles exhibit safe and comfortable behaviors with cyclists, motorcyclists, and other micromobility users.
Prior to Waymo, Eric was a Product Manager at Uber ATG where he drove the technical development and commercialization strategy for many core technologies. He also worked as a Robotics Engineer at Facebook, specializing in human-robot interaction, mobile manipulation, and multi-agent systems.
Eric received his B.Sc in Electric Engineering from the University of Southern California where he focused on robotics (human-robot interaction and planning under uncertainty) and product design.
Our Discussions
Learn more about the most interesting and challenging problems in autonomous driving technology from the women of Waymo.
Women in Mobility: The Power of Mentorship
Watch our panel of influential women working in autonomous driving technology and mobility discuss their experiences being a mentor, receiving mentorship, the role it’s played in their careers, and tips on cultivating a mentorship.
Self-Driven Women: Opportunities and Challenges for Women Working in the Mobility Industry
Waymo COO Tekedra Mawakwana moderated a panel discussion with three inspiring female leaders in transportation and mobility as part of our inaugural #SelfDrivenWomen virtual event. In this video, they share their career stories, the challenges they’ve faced, the lessons they’ve learned to overcome them, and answer questions from attendees.
Driving Conversations: Women of Waymo
At Waymo, we are committed to addressing inequality, and we believe listening is a critical first step toward driving positive change. Earlier this year, five Waymonauts sat down to share their thoughts on equity at work, challenging the status quo, and more. This is what they had to say.
Self-Driven Women: Engineering the future of autonomy
Learn more about the most interesting and challenging problems in autonomous driving technology from the women of Waymo.
Women in Mobility: The Power of Mentorship
Watch our panel of influential women working in autonomous driving technology and mobility discuss their experiences being a mentor, receiving mentorship, the role it’s played in their careers, and tips on cultivating a mentorship.
Sharing our safety framework for fully autonomous operations
Now that we’ve opened up our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to the public, we’re also sharing in detail the safety framework that explains the processes we use to drive fully autonomously on public roads and validate the safety of our operations.
In the cab with the Waymo Driver: How trucks help advance our self-driving technology
In 2017, after nearly a decade of developing self-driving technology for passenger cars, we launched our trucking and local delivery program now known as Waymo Via. Since then, our autonomous Class 8 trucks have been tested in a wide variety of cities and environments in California, Georgia, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Utilizing the same core technology stack across all of our vehicles allows us to bring fully driverless trucks to the market safely and quickly.