Divya Thakur, former Director of Product Engineering at Cruise, founded Yard Robotics to focus on outdoor automation. At Cruise, Thakur headed a 120-engineer team developing autonomous ride-sharing and delivery, managing the fleet of self-driving electric vehicles, designing apps and interfaces for in-car experiences, and mapping cities like San Francisco and Phoenix.
Before joining Cruise, Thakur worked on equities, options, and futures trading systems at financial services firms, including Goldman Sachs. Thakur’s areas of interest include robot locomotion, perception, and applications of robotic fleets.