Astro Teller

Dr. Astro Teller currently oversees X, Alphabet's moonshot factory for building breakthrough technologies and businesses designed to help tackle huge problems in the world. Some of X’s best known moonshots include Waymo autonomous cars, Verily Life Sciences, Google Brain and Wing delivery drones. Before joining Google / Alphabet, Astro was the co-founding CEO of Cerebellum Capital, Inc, an investment management firm whose investments are continuously designed, executed, and improved by a software system based on techniques from statistical machine learning. Astro was also the co-founding CEO of BodyMedia, Inc, a leading wearable body monitoring company. Prior to starting BodyMedia, Dr. Teller was co-founding CEO of SANDbOX AD, an advanced development technology incubator. Before his tenure as a business executive, Dr. Teller taught at Stanford University and was an engineer and researcher for Phoenix Laser Technologies, Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems, and The Carnegie Group Incorporated.