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David Stavens
Born1982 (age 41–42)
Self-driving cars, robotics,[1] computer science
InstitutionsUdacity (co-founder), Stanford Self-Driving Car Team (co-founder), Nines (co-founder)
ThesisLearning to Drive: Perception for Autonomous Cars (2011)
Doctoral advisorSebastian Thrun[2]
Other academic advisorsAndrew Ng, Fei-Fei Li[3]

David Stavens is an American entrepreneur and scientist. He was co-founder and CEO of Udacity; a co-creator of Stanley,[5][6][7][8] the winning self-driving car of the DARPA Grand Challenge;[9] and co-founder and CEO of Nines, a creator of AI-enabled FDA-approved medical devices.[10][11][12][13] Stavens has published in the fields of robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and has helped start organizations with an aggregate market value of over $30 billion.[14][15]

Early life and education

Stavens grew up in Sioux City, Iowa and attended Princeton University, graduating with a B.S.E. in Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, at age 19.[16] He is an alumnus of Stanford University's Computer Science department for both M.S.[17] and Ph.D.[18] programs. His Ph.D. was advised by Sebastian Thrun.[19]

Autonomous cars

Stavens was a co-creator on

self-driving cars which led the vehicle to win the race.[23] Stavens's publications state that they apply the concept of self-supervised learning to autonomous driving with the benefit of avoiding human intervention.[24][25] His dissertation states that this self-supervised learning approach has the potential to improve human driving performance.[3] The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab awarded Stavens a gold medal "For his groundbreaking contributions to the winning DARPA Grand Challenge vehicle...."[26]

The Stanford autonomous driving team ultimately joined Google as the foundation of Google's self-driving car team (Waymo).[27]

Stavens also made contributions to the 2009 NASA Mars Rover Mission.[28]

Indoor WiFi maps

Stavens worked on research at Stanford on indoor localization using WiFi signal strength measurements. The goal was to create a system capable of delivering GPS-quality localization indoors, where GPS satellites do not function. He and Jesse Levinson were winners of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2009 which provided $100,000 in funding for the research.[29]

He published the research along with Joseph Huang, David Millman, Morgan Quigley, Sebastian Thrun, and Alok Aggarwal, stating that it produced excellent results in practice.[30] Joseph Huang went on to found an indoor localization start-up, WifiSLAM,[31] that was acquired by Apple.[32]

Online education

Stavens co-founded and was CEO of Udacity.[33] Udacity helped popularize the concept of the offering college courses for free as Massive open online course's (MOOC),[34] intended to make high-quality education accessible and nearly free around the entire world via Internet.[35]

As CEO, he grew the company to 160,000 students and 20 employees.[36] Udacity was valued at $1 billion in 2015.[37] As of 2018, Udacity had over 50,000 paid students and $70 million in revenue.[38]

References

  1. ISBN 9783540734284
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  2. ^ David Stavens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved March 4, 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Learning to drive [electronic resource] : perception for autonomous cars in SearchWorks catalog". searchworks.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  4. ISSN 0099-9660
    . Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  5. ^ Leckart, Steven. "The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
  6. ^ "Online pioneer Udacity lands $105 million round and a $1 billion valuation". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  7. ^ Anderson, Stuart. "Sebastian Thrun: Udacity Would Not Exist Without Immigrants". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  8. ^ Poletti, Therese. "Why the father of the self-driving car left Google". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  9. ^ Davis, Joshua. "Say Hello to Stanley". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  10. ^ Nines. "Teleradiology Leader Receives FDA Clearance for Its Lung Nodule Measurement Tool Built with Artificial Intelligence". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  11. ^ "Leadership of Top Radiology Practice I Nines Teleradiology". www.nines.com. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
  12. ^ "Nines FDA Approval". www.businesswire.com. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
  13. ^ "Nines 510(k)" (PDF). www.fda.gov. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
  14. ^ "David Stavens - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  15. ^ "Princeton Entrepreneurs". entrepreneurs.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
  16. ^ "David Stavens' Homepage". ai.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  17. ^ "Masters Alumni Stanford Computer Science". cs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  18. ^ "Ph.D Alumni Stanford Computer Science". cs.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
  19. ^ "David Stavens - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  20. ^ Poletti, Therese. "Why the father of the self-driving car left Google". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  21. ^ ""Stanley" Robot Car". National Museum of American History. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  22. ^ "Stanley Moves In". National Air and Space Museum. 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  23. ISBN 9780262693486
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  24. ISBN 978-0974903927
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  25. S2CID 2187260
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  26. ^ "David Stavens, talk, gold medal for DARPA Grand Challenge vision algorithms". searchworks.stanford.edu. 22 November 2009.
  27. ^ "What we're driving at". Official Google Blog. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  28. ISSN 0307-1235
    . Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  29. ^ "Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Winners | Qualcomm". Qualcomm. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  30. S2CID 15564688
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  31. ^ "Indoor location is ready for its second act (exclusive)". VentureBeat. 2012-08-30. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  32. ^ "Apple Buys Indoor Mapping Company WifiSLAM". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  33. ^ Cheshire, Tom. "University just got flipped: how online video is opening up knowledge to the world". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  34. ^ "Udacity Official Declares MOOCs 'Dead' (Though the Company Still Offers Them) - EdSurge News". EdSurge. 2017-10-12. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  35. ^ "Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course". Fast Company. 2013-11-14. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  36. ISSN 0099-9660
    . Retrieved 2018-03-04.
  37. ^ "Udacity Raises $105 Million Series D, Bringing Valuation To $1 Billion – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
  38. ^ "Udacity, with eye to eventual IPO, says revenue more than doubled..." Reuters. 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2018-03-04.

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