Eric Chu

Eric Chu is the head of the Data Science and Engineering team at Zoox, where he oversees the company’s strategic data analysis capability in order to better understand and improve Zoox’s robotaxi performance. Prior to this role, Chu served numerous roles in data science, motion planning, and software at Zoox with increasing responsibility. Chu also held data science and research roles at previous companies, including Winton, Expanse, and Google across domains as varied as finance, cybersecurity, and energy. Chu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University where he studied mathematical optimization under Stephen Boyd, contributing to various open-source optimization solvers and parser-solvers.