Alex Kendall is a British technologist and entrepreneur best known as co-founder and chief executive of Wayve, the London-based autonomous driving company he established in 2017. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, where his research into deep learning and uncertainty in computer vision attracted significant academic attention and formed the intellectual foundation for Wayve's approach to embodied AI.
Under his leadership, Wayve has pursued a data-driven, end-to-end machine learning methodology for autonomous vehicles, positioning itself as a distinct alternative to rule-based and HD-map-dependent systems. The company has raised substantial funding from investors including SoftBank, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Kendall is widely cited in the autonomous driving field and continues to shape Wayve's technical and commercial direction.