Josh Switkes
Waymo
- Role
- Waymo
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Josh Switkes
Josh Switkes has been developing vehicle control, automation and safety systems since 2001. Inventor on more than 40 patents across powertrain, vehicle control, vehicle to vehicle communication, and automation, with experience at three of the largest car OEMs. After his work at Stanford University on a variety of vehicle control systems, including guaranteeing safety for lanekeeping assistance and steering wheel haptic feedback, Josh developed production control systems for Volkswagen, Audi, and Tula Technology. Most recently he founded Peloton Technology, where he brough together a world class team of engineers, investors and advisors to bring groundbreaking safety and efficiency to trucking through the application of modern sensing, control and communications in the form of truck Platooning.
Experience
Oct 2020 — Present
Education
Athenian School
High School
1990 — 1997
Harvey Mudd College
BS, Engineering
1997 — 2001
Stanford University
PhD, Mechanical Engineering
2001 — 2007
Skills
- Controls Development
- Control Systems Design
- Robotics
- Strategy
- Matlab
- Control Theory
- Embedded Software
- Vehicles
- Finite Element Analysis
- Electric Vehicles
- Program Management
- Automotive
- Dynamics
- Dspace
- Mechatronics
- Systems Engineering
- Algorithms
- System Identification
- Engineering Management
- Electronics
- Sensors
- Powertrain
- Simulink
- Embedded Systems
- Hev
- Mechanical Engineering
- State Estimation
- Automotive Engineering
- Optimization
- Troubleshooting
- Digital Signal Processors
- Entrepreneurship
- Cfd
- R&D
- Simulations
- Labview
- Vehicle Dynamics
- Engineering
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