Liam Pedersen

Dr. Pedersen has over 20 years of experience in robotic vehicles, self driving cars, system integration, artificial intelligence, human-machine interaction.  He holds 20+ patents, and 50+ publications at international conferences and journals, and is a recipient of NASA’s Public Service Medal and the US Antarctic Service Medal. 

Dr. Pedersen’s is Chief Scientist at the Nissan Advanced Technology Center – Silicon Valley (NATCSV), where he is responsible for starting new research in autonomous driving, smart city services, vehicle electrification and AI enabled robotics.  Prior to Nissan, Dr Pedersen worked at NASA’s Ames Research Center on space rovers for Lunar, Martian and other applications for scientific exploration and emergency response.

Dr Pedersen led Nissan’s participation in CCTA’s Innovate 680 project, under which he worked closely with thought leaders at UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt University as well as the Dutch transportation authorities around Amsterdam.