Colin de Vrieze is a Head of Application Engineering at Applied Intuition and leads technical engagements with automakers and autonomy programs in the European region. Prior to Applied, he was with Palantir Technologies and Aptiv. He graduated with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology, and Computer Engineering from RWTH Aachen University.

Applied Intuition provides simulation software and infrastructure tools to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous systems at scale. Our 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 the drive data, creating variations of test scenarios, and supplementing them with synthetic data. Our 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, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Munich, Seoul, and Tokyo, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts with experiences from the top global companies. Industry-leading companies of all sizes use Applied’s solutions to bring autonomy to market faster.