Moderator/374-Fighting for Safety: Defining Good On-road Driving through Wargaming
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 12, 2023: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Kevin Gay
Director, Head of Safety, Autonomous Vehicles, Uber
Presentation Description
Speaker Biography
Kevin Gay is the Head of Safety for Autonomous Mobility & Delivery at Uber where he leads all safety aspects of the early integration and ongoing operation of autonomous mobility and delivery vehicles on our global platform. He also currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE P2846 Working Group, a voting member of the SAE On-Road Automated Driving Committee and represents Uber in the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium, all of which are focused on developing safety standards for automated vehicles. Prior to re-joining Uber, Kevin served as the Director, Safety Standards Policy at Aurora, where he led Aurora’s technical engagements with industry standards development organizations as well as developed the internal policies governing the utilization of safety standards in development and testing of the Aurora Driver. Previous to Aurora, he also led the development of emerging industry safety standards at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group (ATG), including engagement with the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium.
Prior to joining the private sector, Kevin served for 16 years in the U.S. Department of Transportation where he led major initiatives on automated vehicles and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications technology. In his last role at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Kevin was the Senior Advisor for Technology Policy to the Deputy Administrator. Kevin has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
