Dragomir Anguelov

Dragomir (Drago) Anguelov is currently the Vice President and Head of Research at Waymo, leading the Research team to push the state of the art in autonomous driving systems using machine learning. Since joining Waymo in 2018, Drago's publications in machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, and robotics have been cited more than 69,000 times. Prior to Waymo, he led the team that built the 3D perception stack at Zoox and spent eight years at Google working on 3D vision, pose estimation, and computer vision annotation systems. The team invented popular methods such as the Inception neural network architecture and the SSD object detector, which won the ImageNet 2014 Classification and Detection challenges.