Summary
Will Ganucheau is a Senior Engineering Manager specializing in vehicle behaviors with 12 years of experience building mission-critical motion planning and decision-making systems for autonomous vehicles, from Mars rover path planning to L4 trucking. He leads cross-functional teams that deliver end-to-end solutions—ML-driven predictions, learned trajectory generation, selection, and intent planning—focused on reliable, real-world deployments. His background includes architecting COLREGS-compliant collision avoidance for surface vessels and shipping production AMR features, demonstrating a track record of turning research-grade algorithms into robust, customer-facing systems. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, he combines hands-on technical leadership with deep domain expertise in trajectory selection and autonomous behaviors, and is known for guiding small, high-impact teams to operationalize complex autonomy stacks.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts