Paul Vernaza (Preferred)
Paul Vernaza
Researcher, AI Research, General Motors
Researcher, Cruise Automation
Joined
October 2017
Names
Emails
****@nec-labs.com (Confirmed)
****@cmu.edu
****@cs.cmu.edu
****@nrec.ri.cmu.edu
****@seas.upenn.edu
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@me.com
****@grasp.upenn.edu
****@aurora.tech
****@getcruise.com (Confirmed)
****@gm.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
AI Research, General Motors (gm.com)
2025 – Present
Researcher
Cruise Automation (getcruise.com)
2023 – Present
Software engineer
Aurora Innovation (aurora.tech)
2019 – 2023
Researcher
NEC Labs America (nec-labs.com)
2015 – 2019
Project scientist
Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)
2013 – 2015
Postdoc
Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)
2011 – 2013
PhD student
University of Pennsylvania (upenn.edu)
2006 – 2011
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coworker
Cyrus Huang
2023 – 2025
Coworker
Brian Hou
2022 – 2023
Expertise
deep generative models
, variational methods
, probabilistic methods
2016 – Present
structured prediction
, inverse reinforcement learning
, behavior prediction
2008 – Present
robotics
, motion planning
2004 – Present
Publications
Co-Authors
- Aleksandr Kushleyev
- Alex Kushleyev
- Alex Stewart
- Anthony Stentz
- Ben Taskar
- Brian D Ziebart
- Brian Pierce
- Brian Satterfield
- Chingiz Tairbekov
- Christopher B. Choy
- Daniel D. Lee
- David Guttendorf
- David S Hayden
- David S. Hayden
- Drew Bagnell
- Eric M Wolff
- Eric M. Wolff
- Gregory P. Meyer
- Hongge Chen
- Jason C. Derenick
- Jim Keller
- John R. Spletzer
- Jonathan Bohren
- Kris M. Kitani
- Liyan Chen