Building Autonomous Vehicles From the Ground-Up

Chu oversees Zoox's strategic data analysis capability in order to better understand and improve the performance of its robotaxi. Chu has served at Zoox in numerous roles in the data science, motion planning, and software areas, with increasing responsibility. He previously held data science and research roles at companies including Winton, Expanse, and Google, crossing domains as varied as finance, cybersecurity, and energy. Chu holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and mathematics and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he studied mathematical optimization under Stephen Boyd, contributing to various open-source optimization solvers and parser-solvers. His academic papers have accumulated more than 10,000 citations.