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Sebastian Thrun was born May 14th, 1976 in Germany
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In 1988 Sebastian received associates degrees in science, economics, and medicine from the University of Hildesheim
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In 1993, Sebastian received a Master's Degree from the University of Bonn.
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Sebastian receives his PhD in statistic and computer science from the University of Bonn
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Joins the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University as a research computer scientist
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In 1998 he became the assistant professor and co-director of the Robot Learning Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University
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Sebastian left Carnegie Mellon University to spend a year working at Stanford University
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Sebastian leaves Carnegie Mellon University for good to become an acossiate professor at Stanford university and was appointed the director of SAIL. (Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)
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Sebastian led the development of the robot vehicle Stanley, who won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
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From 2007-2011 Thrun was a full time professor at Stanford, teaching computer science and electircal engineering. This was the time that he started working with Google to produce the Driverless Car.
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Left Stanford for good to become an employee of Google and become a Google Fellow.
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Thrun cofounds the online educational organization, Udacity
