Jason Ferns is Principal Engineer at Innovusion, where he has spent the last 4 years working on LiDAR systems for Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is focused on quality data as a foundation for safe, robust AD perception and control. Prior to Innovusion, he worked in the Semiconductor industry for 20 years focusing on the development of precision optical instruments for use in semiconductor manufacturing.

Founded in 2016, Innovusion is a global industry-leading lidar solution company with advanced R&D in Silicon Valley, California; manufacturing, production engineering, and SW/HW R&D in Suzhou and Shanghai, China; and European operations based in Frankfurt, Germany. Innovusion's long range, image-grade LiDAR is a market leader in the autonomous driving industry. It is currently in mass production under contract with one of the leaders in E-mobility being selected as the standard configuration for the NIO ET7. The company’s lidar products are also used in the areas of V2X, Smart Infrastructure, security, rail transit, mapping, industrial automation, and autonomous construction and mining applications.