Connor Riley is the CTO of Ontra Mobility, a startup helping transit agencies plan and operate on-demand mulitmodal transit systems Formerly, Connor worked at Google on the AVID Display Ads Optimization team.

Connor recieved his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Georgia Institute of Technology focusing on large-scale real-time ridesharing for public transit. Connor was the primary architect of MARTA Reach an on-demand ridesharing pilot in Atlanta, GA and of CAT Smart, a multimodal on-demand ridesharing pilot in Savannah, GA. He also built the dispatching algorithm for the RITMO pilot, at University of Michigan.

Connor's research interests reside at the intersection of artificial intelligence and optimization.

Connor's Ph.D. advisor was Pascal Van Hentenryck