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Researcher

Dragomir Anguelov

Also known as Drago Anguelov

Dragomir Anguelov is a computer vision researcher who heads AI foundations at Waymo. He earned a computer vision PhD at Stanford in 2005, and from 2007 he worked at Google on Street View and Google Photos. He co-authored Going Deeper with Convolutions, a CVPR 2015 paper that proposes the Inception architecture. In 2025, CVPR gave the paper its Longuet-Higgins Prize, a test-of-time award. He joined Waymo in 2018 to lead its research team after heading the 3D perception team at Zoox.

Timeline

  1. 2005

    A Stanford computer vision PhD

    He graduates from Stanford's PhD program in 2005, with a doctorate in computer vision.

  2. 2007

    Street View and Google Photos

    He joins Google in 2007, first on 3D vision and pose estimation for Street View, and later leads a team building computer vision systems for annotating Google Photos.

  3. 2015

    The Inception architecture

    He co-authors Going Deeper with Convolutions, a CVPR 2015 paper that proposes the Inception architecture.

  4. 2018

    Research team at Waymo

    He joins Waymo in 2018 to lead its research team, after heading the 3D perception team at Zoox.

  5. 2025

    A Longuet-Higgins Prize

    In 2025, CVPR gives the Longuet-Higgins Prize to Going Deeper with Convolutions, a test-of-time award for CVPR papers from 2015.

  6. Since 2025

    Head of AI foundations

    He leads AI foundations at Waymo, and in March 2025 he discusses foundation models for autonomous driving on the TWIML podcast.

Sources and credits

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  1. Drago Anguelov ai.stanford.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Dr. Dragomir Anguelov | World-leading computer and AI scientists arrive in Sofia for the first INSAIT conference | September 30 - October 1 2022, Sofia Bulgaria conf.insait.ai. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Drago Anguelov | CSAIL Alliances cap.csail.mit.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. CVPR 2015 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. IEEE Computer Society Celebrates 2025 Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI) Awardees cvpr.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Waymo’s Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving | TWIML - The Voice of Machine Learning & AI twimlai.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. Dragomir Anguelov | TWIML - The Voice of Machine Learning & AI twimlai.com. Checked 14 October 2026.