Summary
Gabe Sibley is a seasoned robotics entrepreneur and technologist who leads Verdant Robotics as Founder and CEO, driving the autonomous agriculture revolution with AI, robotics, computer vision and machine learning. Since 2018 he has steered Verdant's mission to apply perception, learning, planning, and control to real-world farming challenges and long-term crop autonomy. His leadership spans high-profile autonomous mobility ventures, including CEO of Zippy Inc. (acquired by GM-Cruise) and Chief Science Officer at Zoox, where he scaled teams to over 200, shaped technical direction, and helped raise a $292M Series A. In academia, he served as Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and previously built the $2–3M/year autonomous robotics and perception group at George Washington University, with earlier postdoctoral work at Oxford and a stint at NASA-JPL. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep technical depth across perception, learning, planning, and control to translate robotics research into scalable, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Computer Science, Phd, Computer Science at University of Southern California
BS, Math/CS, BS, Math/CS at Emory University