Ali Damo Academy responded to the departure of Wang Gang, head of autonomous driving: Thank you for your contribution

The head of the autonomous driving laboratory of Ali Damo Academy left his job.

On January 5, Wang Gang, vice president of Alibaba and head of the autonomous driving laboratory of Alibaba Damo Academy, recently left his job. In this regard, Ali Damo Academy responded to the surging news reporter: "Thank you Wang Gang for his contribution to the unmanned driving technology of Damo Academy, and bless Wang Gang." ”

It is reported that Wang Gang is the head of the autonomous driving laboratory of Ali Damo Academy, joined Alibaba in 2017, and was a tenured professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Global MITTR35 winner, editorial board member of IEEETPAMI, a top journal on artificial intelligence, and chairman of the field of ICCV/CVPR/ECCV. Research areas include deep learning and its applications in computer vision and autonomous driving.

Ali's first logistics robot "Little Wild Donkey".

At present, the research direction of the autonomous driving laboratory of Alibaba Damo Academy includes environment perception, high-precision positioning, decision-making planning, intelligent control, simulation platform and data platform, and the main product application is intelligent logistics robot. At the 2020 Yunqi Conference, Alibaba released the first logistics robot "Little Wild Donkey", and at the same time released the robot platform to officially enter the robot track. At that time, Wang Gang, as the head of the automatic driving laboratory, introduced that the little wild donkey had a mass production plan in 2021, and people could see it in communities such as campuses and communities.

According to the Tianyancha App, Hangzhou Xiaomandonkey Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (100% owned by Hangzhou Alibaba Venture Capital Co., Ltd.) changed its industry and commerce on December 17, 2021, Wang Gang withdrew from the executive director and general manager, and Chen Junbo took over as the executive director and general manager of the company, becoming the legal representative of Hangzhou Xiaomandonkey Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.

It is reported that Chen Junbo is a senior algorithm expert in the autonomous driving laboratory of Alibaba Damo Academy, responsible for the research and development of decision-making planning control algorithms and simulation systems, and has served as the person in charge of the anti-cheat algorithm direction of Alibaba Cloud's search department, the person in charge of the Taobao data laboratory algorithm, and the person in charge of the unmanned vehicle algorithm of the Cainiao ET laboratory.