Management Team

Dr. Jun Peng is our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Peng is responsible for overall strategic planning, business development, operations and management of the Group. Prior to founding the Group, Dr. Peng served as the Chief Architect at Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU, HKEX: 9888) in charge of the research and development of Baidu’s autonomous driving unit. Prior to that, Dr. Peng worked at Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL, GOOG), during which time he received the highest internal honor, the Google Founder’s Award. Dr. Peng obtained a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in the PRC, and a doctorate degree from Stanford University in the United States.

Dr. Tiancheng Lou is our executive Director and Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Lou is responsible for overall research and development, and management of product and technology initiatives of our Group. Prior to founding the Group, Dr. Lou worked at Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU, HKEX: 9888) from April 2016. Prior to that, Dr. Lou worked at Quora as a software engineer from January 2016. Dr. Lou served as an engineer at Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL, GOOG) from October 2012 to January 2016 and joined their autonomous driving unit. Dr. Lou is widely recognized as a top computer programmer, having been a 16-year medalist in the TopCoder competitions and a two-time champion of the global programming competition Google Code Jam. Dr. Lou obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science in the PRC in July 2008 and a doctorate degree in computer science in computer science from Tsinghua University in June 2012.

Dr. Haojun Wang is our Chief Financial Officer, and is responsible for our corporate financing transactions, financial planning and management matters and human resources of the Group. Dr. Wang joined our Group in December 2016. Prior to joining our Group, Dr. Wang served as an architect at Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU, HKEX: 9888) from March 2014. Prior to that, Dr. Wang served as a software developer at IBM (NYSE: IBM) from December 2008. Earlier in his career, he worked at Shanghai Online since August 1998. Dr. Wang obtained a bachelor’s degree in information and control engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in the PRC in July 1998 and a doctorate degree in computer science from the University of Southern California in the United States in May 2009.

Mr. Ning Zhang is our vice president, the head of autonomous driving system and the head of the Beijing office. He joined our Group in November 2017 and has been serving as vice president since then. Mr. Zhang is responsible for the management of the Beijing office and autonomous driving system. Prior to joining our Group, Mr. Zhang served as an engineer at Google Canada Corp, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOGL, GOOG) from February 2015 to November 2017. Mr. Zhang studied under the tutelage of Academician Yao Qizhi, the only Turing Award winner in China, and was a member of the first Yao Class of Tsinghua University. Mr. Zhang obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University in the PRC in July 2008 and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo in Canada in June 2014.

Dr. Luyi Mo is our vice president and head of the Guangzhou and Shenzhen offices. Dr. Mo joined our group in August 2018 as a vice president. Dr. Mo is responsible for management of our Guangzhou and Shenzhen offices as well as our robotaxi service and operation. Prior to joining our Group, Dr. Mo worked as a senior software engineer at NetEase (Nasdaq: NTES, HKEX: 9999) from December 2015 to August 2018, specializing in game engine development. Dr. Mo obtained a bachelor’s degree in information and computing science from Zhejiang University in the PRC in June 2011 and a doctorate degree in computer science from the University of Hong Kong in November 2016. During her university time, Dr. Mo received world champion at the 35th Annual ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in 2011, making her the first female world champion from China since 1977.