Experience

  1. Principal Algorithm Expert & Founding Director

    NIO. Assisted and Intelligent Driving.
    • Launching cutting-edge research in Advanced AI and Intelligent Driving Systems.
    • Founding and Leading the NIO AI Research team.

  2. Senior Algorithm Expert & Director

    Alibaba. Autonomous Driving Lab (CaiNiao).
    • Fully launched an L4 lightweight HD-map architecture for unmanned vehicles.
    • Established generative 3D reconstruction pipelines for data curation and closed-loop validation.
    • Unified multi-task perception models across both backbone and data to reduce sensor and chip BOM costs.
    • Led full-time employees and research interns for frontier algorithms.
    • Served as the Legal Representative and Party Branch Secretary of the lab.

  3. Algorithm Expert & Tech Leader

    Alibaba. Autonomous Driving Lab (DAMO Academy & CaiNiao).
    • Scaled production of HD maps and curated driving clips with auto-labeling.
    • Advanced SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and auto-labeling algorithms and systems.
    • Took on formal people-management responsibilities as a Line Manager (since Jan 2022).

  4. Senior Algorithm Engineer

    Alibaba. A.I. Robotics Lab (DAMO Academy).
    • Designed and implemented a semantic-SLAM architecture for onboard localization in robotic systems.

Education

  1. Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Tsinghua University

  2. B.Eng. in Computer Science

    Wuhan University
    • Ranked 1/195 and recommended for graduate study.
    • Recipient of the China National Scholarship.

Funding

  1. End-to-End Driving through BEV Perception

    Core Contributor
    Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LD24F030001)

  2. Learning-based Low-cost Multi-sensor Localization

    Project Leader
    Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Institute of Frontier Technologies (AZFT)

  3. LiDAR Point Cloud Feature Extraction and SLAM

    Project Leader
    Alibaba Innovative Research (AIR)

  4. Street-View Representation and Processing

    Student Member
    Tsinghua University-Tencent Joint Laboratory

Teaching

  1. Advanced Computer Graphics

    Tsinghua University. Post-graduate. 2 terms.

  2. Fundamental of Computer Graphics

    Tsinghua University. Under-graduate and Yao Class. 6 terms.

  3. C++ Programming Language

    Tsinghua University. Under-graduate. 1 term.

Academic Services

  1. Journal Reviewer

    • Graphics: ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), Computer Graphics Forum (CGF).
    • Robotics: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Robotics and Automation Systems (RAS).

  2. Conference Reviewer

    • Graphics: IEEE VR, CVM, GMOD, PG, TVC, etc.
    • Vision and Learning: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NIPS, AAAI, WACV, 3DV, etc.
    • Robotics: ICRA, IROS.

  3. Conference Program Committee

    Computational Visual Media.