Henriette Cornet - PhD
CEO and Founder
Urban Innovate
Dr. Henriette Cornet is an adjunct professor of engineering and co-director of the Autonomous Vehicles and the City Initiative at the University of San Francisco. Her work focuses on sustainable urban mobility, autonomous vehicles, public transportation, and the societal impacts of emerging mobility technologies. She is also founder and CEO of Urban Innovate, where she advises public agencies and industry on automated mobility, deployment strategy, evaluation, and public perception. Previously, she led automated mobility activities at the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and coordinated the €30 million European SHOW project, which demonstrated shared automated mobility across multiple European cities. Earlier, she was a principal investigator at TUMCREATE in Singapore and worked in the automotive industry in Germany. Henriette holds a PhD from the Technical University of Munich and serves on the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Transit Data and Emerging Technologies (AP017). She is also a Mineta Research Associate.

United States