Scott Pendleton is a Research Fellow under the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology’s (SMART) Future Urban Mobility (FM) Autonomous Vehicle’s Group, a collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore. His research is focused on development of self-driving vehicle prototypes to demonstrate capabilities for autonomous mobility-on-demand urban transportation services, i.e. scalable technology to be used in shared self-driving car fleets which can supplement existing public transportation primarily through addressing the first-mile and last-mile problem. He has received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and is currently a PhD Candidate at the National University of Singapore. His research specialization is in motion planning for mobile robotics, with interest and experience also in hardware systems integration, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, teleoperation, and other technologies related to self-driving capability.