Astro Teller

As X’s Captain of Moonshots, Astro is responsible for steering X’s projects through the bumps and scrapes they meet along the road to reality.

Prior to X, Astro founded and grew five companies including BodyMedia, a wearable body monitoring company; Cerebellum Capital, an AI investment management firm; and Sandbox Advanced Development, a technology incubator.

Astro holds a B.S. in computer science and an M.S. in symbolic and heuristic computation, both from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon, where he was a recipient of the Hertz fellowship. Before moving to the business world, he taught at Stanford University, and did engineering research for Phoenix Laser Technologies, Stanford’s Center for Integrated Systems, and The Carnegie Group Incorporated.

Through his work as a scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur, Astro holds many U.S. and international patents related to hardware and software technology. He’s the author of three published books, and an international speaker on technology and innovation.