Speakers

Dr Trent Victor is director of safety research and best practices at Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to get where they're going. Trent oversees safety research to support safety evaluations and strategic initiatives; provides safety expertise in the area of collision data analysis, collision causation, injury severity assessments, and naturalistic driving data research and analysis; represents safety issues within Waymo; and coordinates the development of best practices within Waymo and external industry standard-setting groups. Trent has published extensively in the field of crash avoidance and autonomous driving safety research (over 100 papers, 36 patents, >3,700 citations). Prior to Waymo, he was senior technical leader at the Volvo Cars Safety Centre, adjunct professor in driver behavior at Chalmers, and adjunct professor at the University of Iowa. He has received top awards such as the US Government award for Safety Engineering Excellence, Volvo Cars Technology & Innovation Award, and the Jerome H. Ely Human Factors (journal) Article Award.