CONNOR RILEY

Connor Riley is the co-founder and CTO of Ontra Mobility and a Research Engineer at the AI Institute for Advances in Optimization, based in New York, New York. At the Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2023 with two employees, he develops a software platform for planning and operating on-demand multimodal transit systems. Prior to this role, Riley worked as a Software Engineer on the Display Ads team at Google from August 2022 to November 2023. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech and a bachelor's degree from the University of Connecticut. His academic research on public transit optimization generated over 150 citations and led to software deployments for MARTA and Chatham Area Transit. Riley currently focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence and operations research to modernize public transportation networks and ridesharing services.