Trent Victor

Dr. Trent Victor is Director of Safety Research and Best Practices at Waymo where he oversees safety publications, represents safety issues within Waymo, and coordinates the development of best practices within Waymo and external industry standard setting groups. Prior to Waymo, Trent was Senior Technical Leader at Volvo Cars Safety Centre, Adjunct Professor in Driver Behavior at Chalmers, and Adjunct Professor at University of Iowa. Trent has published extensively in the field of Crash Avoidance and Autonomous Driving Safety Research (>100 papers, >6200 citations). He has been awarded top awards such as Automotive News’ 2021 safety innovation executive of the year, the US Government award for Safety Engineering Excellence.