Ashu Rege is the senior vice president of software engineering at Zoox, where he is responsible for Zoox’s entire software platform, autonomous and offline, including AI and machine learning, motion planning, computer vision and 3D perception, localization, mapping, simulation, firmware, server-client, and base ops software. Previously, Ashu was vice president of computer vision and robotics at NVIDIA, where he was in charge of the company’s autonomous vehicle and drone technology projects; held a number of executive roles at NVIDIA, including vice president of the content and technology group developing core graphics, physics simulation, and GPU computing technologies and associated software; and cofounded or worked at various startups related to computer graphics, laser scanning, internet, and network technologies. Ashu holds a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley, where he was a Regents’ fellow and Pardee scholar.