Alex Kendall
Co-Founder CEO at Wayve
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kendall is a technology leader and founder who currently guides Wayve as Co-Founder and CEO, pioneering Embodied AI for next-generation autonomous vehicles. With eight years of experience and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Robotics, he blends advanced research with product-building to enable rapid, safe adaptation of autonomous systems to new driving domains worldwide. At Wayve, he advocates a lean sensor and compute stack and data-driven approaches to scale autonomy, and the company has raised about $1.3B while expanding teams across London, Silicon Valley, and Vancouver. His background spans research and engineering roles—from a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, to a Research Engineer at Skydio and a Software Engineer at Beca—reflecting a hands-on, end-to-end approach to AI-enabled hardware. A proud Kiwi and adventurer, he brings a global perspective to building embodied AI in real-world settings. He previously served as a Scientific Advisor at Scape Technologies and continues to push the boundaries of AI in the physical world.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Deep Learning Computer Vision and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Deep Learning Computer Vision and Robotics at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (50)
depth10
depth-estimation9
matching9
stereo9
kitti8
prediction8
implicit8
autoencoder8
siggraph8
edge-detection8
pytorch7
encoding7
pyramid7
localization7
backbone7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
youmi-zym/youmi-zym.github.io
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
Alex Kendall's Research Website
Contributions:136 pushes in 4 years
research-websitealex
DeepMotionAIResearch/DenseMatchingBenchmark
Dec 2019 - Nov 2021
Contributions:30 commits, 22 pushes, 31 comments in 1 year 10 months
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