Sebastian Thrun

Born

May 14, 1976

Sebastian Thrun was born May 14th, 1976 in Germany

Associates Degree

Jun 6, 1988

In 1988 Sebastian received associates degrees in science, economics, and medicine from the University of Hildesheim

Master's Degree

Jun 19, 1993

In 1993, Sebastian received a Master's Degree from the University of Bonn.

PhD

Apr 26, 1995

Sebastian receives his PhD in statistic and computer science from the University of Bonn

Carnegie Mellon University

Sep 10, 1995

Joins the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University as a research computer scientist

Assistant Professor

Feb 4, 1998

In 1998 he became the assistant professor and co-director of the Robot Learning Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University

Leaving CMU

Aug 9, 2001

Sebastian left Carnegie Mellon University to spend a year working at Stanford University

Leaving CMU again

Jul 12, 2003

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)

DARPA

Oct 25, 2005

Sebastian led the development of the robot vehicle Stanley, who won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge

Stanford Professor

Feb 17, 2007

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.

Leaving Stanford

Apr 1, 2011

Left Stanford for good to become an employee of Google and become a Google Fellow.

Udacity

Jan 23, 2012

Thrun cofounds the online educational organization, Udacity