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Dragomir Anguelov
WaymoVice President, Head of AI Foundations Team
Anguelov leads Waymo’s AI Foundations team.[1] He co-authored the paper introducing the Waymo Open Dataset, which gave researchers a shared benchmark for testing how self-driving cars detect and track road users.[2] He also co-created SCAPE, a method for reconstructing and animating 3D human bodies from scans.[3]
Career & education
Current roleWaymo2025-presentVice President, Head of AI Foundations Team
Waymo2025-presentPreviously
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations173,685As of Nov 1, '26
citations+1,975Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
Going Deeper with Convolutions
With Christian Szegedy, Wei Liu, Yangqing Jia, Pierre Sermanet, Scott Reed, Dumitru Erhan, Vincent Vanhoucke and others ·GoogLeNet recognizes images with parallel filters operating at different scales.
References
- Long Horizon Physical AI Summit speaker bioencord.com
The 2026 summit program lists Anguelov as Waymo’s vice president and head of its AI Foundations team.
- Scalability in Perception for Autonomous Driving: Waymo Open Datasetarxiv.org
Anguelov and colleagues introduce a public driving dataset and benchmarks for detecting and tracking objects.
- SCAPE: Shape Completion and Animation of Peoplerobots.stanford.edu
Anguelov and colleagues show how to reconstruct human body shapes and animate them in new poses.
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