Vijaysai Patnaik leads the product team at Applied Intuition. Before Applied, he led Waymo’s autonomous trucking business and product work at Google. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from Harvard University.

Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous systems at scale. Applied's suite of products, focused on simulation, drive data management, and analytics, enables development teams to create thousands of scenarios in minutes, run simulations at scale, automate requirements management, and reduce on-road testing. Applied’s solution amplifies the real-world miles driven by picking edge cases from driving on public roads, creating variations of test scenarios, and supplementing them with synthetic data. Applied's solutions support safe operations of vehicles by catching failure cases early and enabling algorithm improvement post-deployment. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Los Angeles, Munich, Tokyo, and Seoul, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts from the top global companies. Industry-leading companies of all sizes use Applied’s solution to bring autonomy to the market faster.