Chip Hogg is a Staff Software Engineer on the Motion Planning Team at Aurora Innovation, the self-driving vehicle company that is developing the Aurora Driver. After obtaining his PhD in Physics from Carnegie Mellon in 2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher and then staff scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), doing Bayesian data analysis. He joined Google in 2012 as a software engineer, leaving in 2016 to work on autonomous vehicles at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, where he stayed until their acquisition by Aurora in 2021.

Chip's main role at Aurora is to design libraries that make it as easy as possible to write integration tests for Aurora's motion planner. He is also the lead author and maintainer of Aurora's units library, Au, and led its open-source release in 2023.