David Stavens

American computer scientist

David Stavens is an American entrepreneur and scientist. He has made significant contributions to the field of AI, co-founding the team that developed Stanley, the self-driving car that led to Google's Waymo, as well as Udacity, an online education platform for technology and AI that has educated millions globally.2

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Born 1982.1

About

He also co-founded Nines, a company that built AI-enabled, FDA-approved medical devices. Stavens has published in the fields of robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, and has contributed to starting companies with an aggregate market value of over $30 billion.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedStanford University3

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. He is an alumnus of Stanford University's Computer Science department for both M.S. and Ph.D. programs. His Ph.D. was advised by Sebastian Thrun.

Online education

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

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

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Career

Occupation: computer scientist.5

Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States6

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