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Speaker

Heba Mustufa

Technical Lead Manager – Systems, Nuro

Heba Mustufa is a Technical Lead Manager for Systems at Nuro. She is responsible for the safety program for Nuro’s custom R3 vehicle which includes adapting safety standards to the R3 program, requirement generation, V&V framework design, and risk evaluation. Heba’s work extends to autonomy safety processes and generating end-to-end safety evaluations for the Nuro Driver platform. Prior to her Systems role at Nuro, Heba was an embedded software engineer both at Nuro and in the wireless industry. Heba is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, where she received a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics.

The Pop in Your Job – What drives you? Why do you love your job?
Heba is passionate about finding a way to maintain a high safety bar while simultaneously meeting ambitious milestones for the R3 program. She excels in finding a way to communicate risk and safety requirements to leadership and development teams who do not have a background in functional safety.

Company

Nuro

Nuro exists to better everyday life through robotics. Founded in 2016, Nuro is a leading AI Robotics company with fully autonomous vehicles on road today in California and Texas. The company’s core technology is the Nuro Driver™, an integrated autonomous driving system consisting of state-of-the-art, AI-first software and automotive grade L4 sense and compute hardware. The first commercial application of the Nuro Driver™ is autonomous goods delivery with our custom, electric, zero-occupant vehicles in partnership with some of the most recognized brands in the world including Uber and FedEx.