As co-founder and CTO of Cepton, Dr. Mark McCord leads the development of high performance, low-cost imaging lidar systems. Prior to Cepton, McCord was Director of System Engineering, Advanced Development at KLA-Tencor, where he developed electron beam technologies for etching and imaging silicon chips. Earlier in his career, Mark was an acting associate professor of Electrical Engineering for three years at Stanford University, leading research in electron beam technology and nanofabrication with a group of 10-15 graduate students, and taught courses on semiconductor lithography and ran the electron beam lithography at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility. Mark earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

The Pop in your Job - A desire to develop cutting edge technology that can advance humankind, particularly as applied to autonomous vehicle deployment.

Cepton provides state-of-the-art, intelligent, lidar-based solutions for a range of markets such as autonomous driving, ADAS, intelligent traffic systems, security, crowd analytics, and industrial robotics. Cepton’s patented MMT®-based lidar technology enables reliable, scalable and cost-effective solutions that deliver long range, high resolution 3D perception for smart applications. Founded in 2016 and led by industry veterans with over two decades of collective experience across a wide range of advanced lidar and imaging technologies, Cepton is focused on the mass market commercialization of high performance, high quality lidar solutions. Cepton is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with presence in Germany, Canada, UK, Japan and India to serve a fast-growing global customer base.