Author Profile

Aaron Wells is the director of engineering and autonomy at Blue River Technology (a John Deere company). He leads the teams that develop the perception system that enables autonomy on John Deere’s large ag products. In addition, Aaron’s group is the core autonomy safety team that serves as the center of excellence for AI enabled offroad autonomy perception within Deere. Following his 16 years at John Deere, Aaron joined the Blue River Technology team in 2020 (following Deere’s acquisition of the company) to lead the development of the perception safety framework and held various leadership positions as the team grew.