Gabe’s 20+ years experience in geo-spatial computation and AI includes serving as principal investigator for NASA, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Department of Defense to create ethical applications of geospatial autonomous technology for GPS-denied locations.

Prior to its 2018 acquisition by General Motors, Gabe was co-founder and CEO of autonomous delivery company Zippy.ai and chief science officer for autonomous taxi company Zoox.

Frequently cited for his extensive research, Gabe’s work has focused on the synthesis of perception, learning, planning, and control to endow robots with long-term autonomous capability.

Gabe earned his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California working with the NASA-Jet Propulsion Lab. He completed his post-doctoral research at Oxford University, was an assistant professor in computer science at George Washington University. He is currently on the faculty as an adjunct professor at University of Colorado Boulder.