John Lathrop
Researcher at GM
Researcher at GM
I am a Senior Research Scientist in the AV Autonomy organization at General Motors. My research interests are in problems applying reinforcement learning, optimization, and statistics to autonomous vehicle technology.
I received a Ph.D. in Control & Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in June 2026, where my research was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. I received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Maryland in 2021.