Product Unit “Autonomos” , TomTom
Tinosch Ganjineh is the CEO of Autonomos GmbH – a Berlin based high-tech startup specialising in the areas of automotive software, digital image processing and 3D sensor technology. In early 2017 TomTom acquired Autonomos to strengthen its position in the autonomous driving market, since then Autonomos is run as a Research Unit within TomTom lead by Tinosch Ganjineh.
Prior to founding the Autonomos GmbH he worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin where he conducted general research in the field of mobile robotics and artificial intelligence. After participating in the DARPA Urban GC in 2007 he created the Autonomos Labs – a research project around autonomous cars funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Since 2011 Autonomos is testing the highly automated cars on public roads in Berlin and other countries around the world. His current research interests in the field of highly automated cars include HD-maps, localisation & mapping -techniques and technical challenges for SAE L5-systems.