Dr. Tyler Reid is a co-founder and CTO of Xona Space Systems, a start-up developing the first-ever independent high-performance satellite navigation and timing system designed to meet the needs of intelligent systems. Previously, Tyler worked as a Research Engineer with the Controls and Automated Systems team at Ford Motor Company, working in localization and mapping for self-driving cars. He also worked as a Software Engineer at Google’s Street View and a lecturer at Stanford University where he co-taught the graduate course on GPS. Tyler received his Ph.D. (’17) and M.Sc. (’12) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford where he worked in the GPS Research Lab and his B.Eng. (’10) in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University.