Rob Ferguson

Vice President of Engineering
Automatic

Rob is Vice President Engineering at Automatic where we are building the future of the connected car.  Prior to Automatic he founded the Data Science team at Rdio, which in addition to playing some amazing tunes, won Bestmodo for Best Streaming Radio.  He's worked on embedded hardware and client software at Flip Video (Cisco) and in the professional editors group at Avid Technologies (Media Composer and Pro Tools). Rob has a master's degree in Music Technology from McGill University and completed a National Science Foundation grant at Johns Hopkins in computer vision/relatively big data.  He most recently spoke at the Spark Summit.