Bio Jan Becker
Jan Becker is CEO and Co-Founder of Apex.AI, Inc. He is also the Managing Director of the Apex.AI GmbH. Prior to founding Apex.AI, he was Senior Director at Faraday Future responsible for Autonomous Driving, and Director at Robert Bosch LLC responsible for Automated Driving in North America. He also served as a Senior Manager and Principal Engineer at the Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA, USA, and as a senior research engineer for Corporate Research at Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany. Since 2010, Jan is Lecturer at Stanford University for autonomous vehicles and driver assistance. Previously, he was a visiting scholar at the University's Artificial Intelligence Lab and a member of the Stanford Racing Team for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. In 2019, Jan was appointed to serve on the external Advisory Board of MARELLI to provide strategic advice to the MARELLI Board. In 2018, he co-founded the Autoware Foundation on was on the foundation's board of directors until 2020.
Jan earned a Ph.D. in control engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, a master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.