Bence Cserna
Head Of Autonomy Software Architecture at Ford Motor Company
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBence Cserna is a seasoned autonomy software leader with 11 years of experience, currently heading Autonomy Software Architecture at Ford after leading research teams at Motional. He blends deep academic training—pursuing a PhD in Computer Science focused on real-time planning—with hands-on autonomy systems work spanning research scientist roles and production-focused leadership. Bence has a track record of moving novel planning and perception ideas from research internships (Lyft, nuTonomy) into deployed AV stacks and scaling teams to deliver safety-critical software. Comfortable at the intersection of research and engineering, he pairs distributed systems and parallel-programming expertise with practical experience in vehicle autonomy and system architecture. Based in Boston, he brings both international academic roots from Budapest and a pragmatic, product-minded approach to building robust real-time planning pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) with Highest Honors Computer and Information Sciences, Master of Science (MSc) with Highest Honors Computer and Information Sciences at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of New HampshireComputer Science and Software Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering at Aquincum Institute of Technology
Hungarian, English
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Github Skills (21)
json7
serialization7
kotlin7
biometrics6
broadcast6
protobuf6
voice6
android6
nfc6
voice-recognition6
matrix6
java6
row6
cbor6
r6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
csbence/motionplanningtoolkit
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:86 pushes, 9 branches in 5 months
UNH-Robotics/metronome
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:87 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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