OUR TEAM
Our founding team includes international gold and silver medalists in computer science competitions and participants in elite winter training programs. Team members bring years of experience from core teams at Google and leading autonomous-driving companies.
Our core technology team has worked at some of the world’s leading technology companies, including Google, DJI, Horizon Robotics, and Pony.ai. Most team members graduated from top universities in China and abroad, including Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Harry Hu
CEO
Former COO & Acting CFO of Pony.ai
Former CFO & Deputy General Manager of QKM Technology
Master’s Degree, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Mentor, MIT Hong Kong Innovation Center
Mr.Liu
Chief Engineering Officer
Former Lead, AI Hardware – Tesla Optimus Humanoid Robot, direct report to Elon Musk
Led Tesla core AI Hardware R&D; spearheaded multi‑generation Tesla FSD hardware platforms. Deeply contributed to AI computing platforms, AD data centers and intelligent vision systems.
M.S., Stanford University
Bill Lei
CTO
Founding Member of Google Maps for Mobile & Google Daydream
11‑year R&D and engineering experience at Google; early member of Google X Lab, Tech Lead of Google ARCore, core engineer for Google Glass.
Member of Hunan Delegation, 2004 National Informatics Winter Camp; admitted to Peking University via recommendation without college entrance examination.
Xingxing Zuo
Director of Robotics
Assistant Professor in Robotics, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi
Google Visiting Scholar
Former Postdoctoral Researcher at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Technical University of Munich (TUM); Academic Visiting Scholar at ETH Zurich.
Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Also served as Associate Editor for top‑tier robotics conferences ICRA (2023‑2025) and IROS (2022‑2025).
Zichao Qi
Chief Architect
Former Decision‑Planning Lead, Pony.ai
World’s 2nd, Google Code Jam 2009; World’s 3rd, ACM‑ICPC World Finals 2011; IOI 2009 Gold Medal, World 3rd.
Undergraduate, Yao Class, Tsinghua University (special recommendation); M.S. in Computer Science, MIT
Christina Cao
VP
Former Business Director of Pony.ai
Hurun Report "U35"; Named One of the Most Notable Female Entrepreneurs by Cyzone
Part‑time Deputy Secretary, Nansha District Communist Youth League Committee
Master’s Degree, City University of Hong Kong; Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, Renmin University of China
Qinrui Yan
COO
Founding Member & Architect of Autonomous Driving Team, Horizon Robotics. Holder of over 20 granted patents.
Co‑author of 14 Lectures on Visual SLAM and translator of State Estimation for Robotics.
M.Sc. in Robotics, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Yizi Wu
Architect
13‑Year Google R&D & Engineering Experience. Former Core Engineer, Google X, ARCore & Google Lens.
Contributed to Google Maps, Glass, Daydream, ARCore, Lens and other key products.
Admitted to Mixed Class, Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University through physics‑competition special admission.