Parinaz Sayyah is currently a Staff Systems Engineer at Cruise Automation. Previously she held the position of Senior Infotainment Systems Engineer at Rivian, Fiat Chrysler Automotive and Harman International leading the development of various Infotainment features such as Navigation, Connectivity and ADAS working cross-functional.

She received her Ph.D degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, in 2013, from Politecnico di Torino. Her research included the design methodologies for Embedded Systems. In 2010, she visited Stanford AIR (Ambient Intelligence Research) Lab where she worked on multi-camera networks for smart Environments with applications to smart homes.

Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about. Since our 2013 founding in San Francisco, we have hired over 1,600 talented individuals and opened additional offices in greater Seattle, Pasadena, and Phoenix. We have raised $9.25B+ from General Motors, Honda, Microsoft, Softbank, T. Rowe Price, and others. Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings. Together, we believe our world-class partners, deep resources, and technology approach of testing in a complex urban environment will help shave years off of our timeline to launch all-electric, self-driving vehicles at scale.