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Shinpei Kato

Author: Shinpei Kato

Shinpei Kato is the CEO, CTO, and founder of TIER IV. He is also the founder and chairman of the Autoware Foundation, as well as a Project Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. Shinpei was a postdoctoral scholar at Keio University, the University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of California, Santa Cruz. He was an associate professor at the Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University from 2012 to 2016. His expertise includes computer architectures and operating systems for embedded and real-time systems as well as parallel and distributed systems.

Autonomous driving startup TIER IV uses AWS to change the future of mobility

Autonomous driving startup TIER IV uses AWS to change the future of mobility

In the automotive industry, TIER IV is an innovative and disruptive startup that is transforming the vehicle production process and the future of mobility. Founded in 2015 by Shinpei Kato in Japan, TIER IV builds platforms based on open source software—platforms they manage using AWS—that their partners use for building autonomous vehicles.