Chris Urmson is an autonomous-vehicle technologist who co-founded Aurora Innovation, where he serves as Chairman and CEO. Chris Urmson's Twitter Score is 14 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #70,102 among 493,952 tracked accounts.
Chris Urmson co-founded Aurora Innovation in 2017 with the goal of delivering self-driving technology safely, quickly, and broadly. Aurora develops autonomous-driving technology and trades on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker $AUR, which refers to its Class A common stock, not a cryptocurrency token.
Chris Urmson previously worked at Google's self-driving program as Chief Technology Officer, contributing to the program from 2009 to 2016. Earlier, he served as Director of Technology for the Carnegie Mellon DARPA Grand and Urban Challenge Teams. He currently sits on the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science Dean's Advisory Board and serves on the Board of Directors of Edge Case Research.
Chris Urmson has published 211 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 50 accounts, with 111 total mentions.
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