Seval Oz
Seval Oz - Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
Seval Oz serves as the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Assistant Secretary for
Research and Technology. In this role, she is charged with aligning the Department’s research, development, and technology programs with President Trump and Secretary Duffy’s strategic goals and promoting innovation deployment across the national transportation system.
Seval was the Senior Business Development and Global Partnerships Lead at Google [X]’s Self Driving Car Program that later evolved into Waymo, where she owned partnership portfolio programming. Subsequently, as CEO of Continental Intelligent Transportation Systems, she was responsible for building a new business unit for Continental AG based in Silicon Valley and spearheading advancements in connected vehicle technology and digital transformation. Seval also served as CEO of Aurima, leading the development of camera-radar hardware and machine learning for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving platforms.
Seval has held advisory and board positions in the mobility sector, including Member of the Board for Microvision, (MVIS- Nasdaq) a leader in automotive lidar technologies, and Executive Board Advisor for Pioneer Electronics, a next generation telematics and infotainment global supplier. She was a founding partner for Archimede Ventures, an early-stage artificial intelligence software fund focused on transportation technologies including global logistics, delivery, routing, ADAS, and robotics. Investments. As a Strategic Advisor for Moove.ai, she guided business and technical strategies for end-to-end, predictive road intelligence analytics.
Seval holds an MBA in finance and marketing from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Wellesley College and MIT. She has nine patents in vehicular technology software and has been published in MIT Technology Review. A well-known public speaker, she has shared her transportation technology expertise through numerous keynotes, panels, and roundtables at industry conferences, university lectures, technical workshops, and global tours.