Joel Pazhayampallil, CEO of BlueSpace.ai, has been in the autonomous driving industry for more than 10 years. Joel was a graduate fellow at Stanford, after which he and his labmates co-founded drive.ai, an autonomous driving company that has deployed several passenger-carrying services in Texas. It has since then been acquired by Apple in 2019. He has also worked on the self-driving teams at major automakers and was a key engineer in building General Motors SuperCruise highway autonomy feature.