Speaker

Edwin Olson

CEO and Co-Founder, May Mobility

Edwin Olson is co-founder and CEO of May Mobility, Inc., an Ann Arbor, Michigan based startup that is transforming cities using self-driving shuttles. May Mobility uses its industry-leading technology to create transportation systems that have launched in four cities, helping to create a safer, greener, and more accessible world. Edwin Olson earned a Ph.D. from MIT in 2008 in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and is on leave from the University of Michigan, where he is an Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Dr. Olson has worked on autonomous vehicles for over a decade, including work on the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge and vehicles for Ford and Toyota Research Institute. He was awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award, named one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10," and was the winner of the 2010 MAGIC robotics competition. In 2019, he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in the Michigan and Northwest Ohio region by Ernst and Young.

Company

May Mobility

May Mobility is developing autonomous vehicles from the chassis up with a focus on system-level safety design. This focus will allow us to be the first to launch a fully driverless autonomous vehicle. We plan to lead the industry with our system design approach and best in class user experience.