Eric Wolff is a lead AI research scientist with 11 years building autonomy for self-driving vehicles, currently heading AI Research Frontiers at General Motors after senior research and leadership roles across Cruise, Motional, and nuTonomy. He combines a Caltech PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems with deep hands-on expertise in planning, controls, estimation, verification, and ML—shipping C++ and Python systems for perception-to-control stacks. His work spans prediction and behavior modeling, hybrid systems, and optimization, with a track record of turning research into deployed autonomy at scale. Based in Zephyr Cove, Nevada, he brings both academic rigor and production engineering savvy, often bridging verification-driven safety research with practical real-world vehicle deployments.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
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Eric Wolff - Lead AI Research Frontiers at General Motors