On January 25, Baidu Research Institute released the top ten technology trend predictions for 2022, exploring more deterministic values and methods in a high-speed and uncertain technology world.
Autonomous driving technology has entered a new stage of unmanned landing, and multiple "automotive robots" continue to emerge, connecting technologies and scenarios. In 2022, under the dual impetus of policies, regulations and technological progress, automatic driving will soar in unmanned, and the automobile form represented by diversified "automotive robots" will develop rapidly. Through the application of passenger cars, buses, trunk logistics, warehousing and distribution, special operations in mines and ports, retail, sanitation and other rich scenarios, diversified "automotive robots" will gradually achieve stable commercial benefits.
In 2021, China's autonomous driving industry ushered in a new inflection point of development, the track continued to be hot, and new enterprises continued to enter the game. At the same time, the executive personnel changes in the autonomous driving circle in the past year have also attracted the attention of the industry, many of which have gone deep into the market blue ocean after leaving, bringing more new possibilities for the development of the industry.
Shinohara Ryo
Valeo, partner and vice president of research and development of Sagitar Juchuang.
On January 18, the news said that Dr. Lei Lei Shinohara, partner and vice president of research and development of Sagitar Juchuang, had left his job, the specific reason was not known, and informed sources revealed that LeiLei Shinohara may return to Valeo.
Dr. Leilei Shinohara joined RoboSense in January 2019 to advance the process of mass production of lidar at the vehicle level. From 2015 to 2018, Dr. Leilei Shinohara was responsible for Valeo's vehicle-grade lidar, automotive active safety products, multi-sensor fusion project, and was a core member of the world's first vehicle-grade mass-produced lidar "Scala (Valeo)" project.
Wang Gang
Former vice president of Alibaba and former head of the autonomous driving laboratory of Damo Academy, started a business in the field of cleaning robots
On January 5, the news reported that Wang Gang, vice president of Alibaba and head of the autonomous driving laboratory of DAMO Academy, has left his job and turned to the field of clean robots to start a business, and has obtained financing.
Wang Gang, a tenured professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, later joined Alibaba as a prime example of a shift from academia to an Internet company. During his time at Alibaba, Wang Gang successively served as the chief scientist of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the head of the autonomous driving laboratory of the Damo Academy, the vice president of Alibaba Group, the head of the autonomous driving laboratory of the Damo Academy, and the director of the Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Autonomous Driving.
Dan Ammann
Cruise's former CEO, due to a struggle for control with GM executives
On December 16, 2021, foreign media reported that General Motors suddenly announced the departure of Dan Ammann, CEO of its self-driving company Cruise, and instead the company's founder and CTO Kyle Vogt presided over the overall situation as interim CEO.
Cruise is the second largest self-driving company in the United States and an important asset of the GM and Honda alliances, and the change in the company's CEO has attracted close attention from the autonomous driving and automotive industries. In a follow-up report, people familiar with the matter revealed that Dan Ammann left because of serious disagreements with GM CEO Mary Barra on the direction of Cruise's development.
Dan Ammann hopes cruise will focus on the driverless taxi sector and go public as soon as possible. However, Mary Barra hopes to keep Cruise firmly within the common system and use Cruise's technology to support the development of autonomous driving technology for GM's mass production models.
Kong flag
The former chief scientist of autonomous driving of JD Logistics has been deeply involved in the industry for 20 years
On December 3, 2021, the media reported that Kong Qi, chief scientist of autonomous driving of JD Logistics, had left his job.
Prior to joining JD Logistics, Kong Qi was one of the core members of Baidu's autonomous driving start-up team. He has been deeply involved in the field of AI and unmanned driving for nearly 20 years, producing many highly cited papers in the industry and holding hundreds of international patents.
Citing Jingdong's public reports, Kong Qi once led JD Logistics to create the world's first automatic delivery vehicle that can drive safely on open roads without safety officer supervision.
Hao Jingshan
Former partner and vice president of commerce of Light Boat Zhihang, optimistic about the unmanned minibus track
On December 3, 2021, the media reported that Hao Jingshan, partner and vice president of commerce of Qingzhou Zhihang, had left his job.
Hao Jingshan graduated from the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree, and he has more than 20 years of experience in landing new technology industry and business development, covering traffic monitoring, Internet finance, mobile phone image enhancement, security intelligent cameras, advanced assisted driving, driver monitoring, automatic driving and other fields.
At the same time, he is a serial entrepreneur, before joining Light Boat Zhihang, he was a co-founding executive of SenseTime and the first commercial director of Momenta, a domestic autonomous driving company.
Hao Jingshan once believed that unmanned minibuses are the most easy application scenarios for automatic driving. The reason is that minibuses have dedicated lanes and are slower and safer than Robotaxi.
Xiao Jun
The former vice president of Jingdong Group and the former president of Jingdong Logistics X Division are internally regarded as the technical founder of Jingdong Logistics System
On November 10, 2021, the media reported that Xiao Jun, vice president of JD Group and president of JD Logistics X Division, had left his job. Xiao Jun has been with JD.com for more than 14 years, he joined JD.com in 2007 and participated in the design of JD.com's early front-end website and supply chain system, and then presided over the design and development of JD Logistics's "Qinglong System" and warehousing system.
Founded in 2016, X Business Unit is the technical department of JD.com researching smart warehousing and logistics systems and unmanned technology. During his tenure as President of X Division, Xiao Jun was responsible for the technology development of JD.com's unmanned vehicles, unmanned warehouses, drones, unmanned supermarkets and other projects. Internally, Xiao Jun is regarded as the technical founder of JD.com's logistics system.
After Xiao Jun left his post, the X business unit he was responsible for was temporarily handed over to Wang Qiang, vice president of JD Group and head of JD Logistics Intelligent Supply Chain Platform. A middle-level member of Jingdong's logistics technology department said that it is not clear why Xiao Jun left, but Xiao Jun has excellent internal technology and good wind evaluation, and he was surprised by his departure.
Chen Qi
Vice President of Extreme Krypton Autonomous Driving, former director of Huawei's autonomous driving R&D department
At the beginning of November 2021, Extreme Kr officially confirmed that Chen Qi, founder of Huawei's autonomous driving team and former director of the autonomous driving research and development department, has joined Extreme Kr as vice president of autonomous driving, mainly responsible for the research and development of intelligent driving technology.
Chen Qi graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University with a master's degree in 2003, worked at ZTE for nearly two years, officially joined Huawei in 2005, and then participated in the research and development of wireless products and intelligent vehicles. In 2019, Chen Qi served as the director of Huawei's autonomous driving R&D department, responsible for Huawei's autonomous driving product research and development.
It is understood that Huawei's ordinary employees are ranked between 13 and 22 levels, and Chen Qi has reached more than 20 levels before leaving, and is one of the veterans of Huawei's automotive business. According to people familiar with Chen Qi, Chen Qi may be a faction that supports Huawei's car manufacturing.
In this way, Huawei has lost a lot of talent in order to abide by the promise of "not building cars", and the key automotive talents who left Huawei in half a year include Jiang Jun (the person in charge of maps and data), Zhang Xiaohong (director of the intelligent driving product project group, who joined NIO as a senior product manager in April 2021), Yu Xiaoli (chief functional safety expert of BU, who later joined NIO as an algorithm research expert), Peng Xueming (head of fusion sensing) and others.
Pan Zhenhao
CEO of Kinte Zhika, the general head of autonomous driving technology of the former truck division of Xiaoma Zhixing
On November 5, 2021, after the former head of autonomous driving technology of Xiaoma Zhixing Truck Division left his job, he registered "Beijing Kinte Smart Card Technology Co., Ltd." in Beijing. In addition, Sun Youhan, the former head of planning and control of the American team of Xiaoma Zhika, is also the initiator of the company.
It is reported that the Xiaoma Zhixing Truck Division was established in December 2020, with Li Hengyu, the head of xiaoma Zhixing's Beijing area, as the general person in charge of Xiaoma Zhixing, and its team size was once as high as 100 people during the peak period. With the heating up of the self-driving truck track, Xiaoma Zhixing has successively chosen to leave and create a company on its own.
In addition to Pan Zhenhao, who set up Kinte Smart Card, Sun Haowen, who was mainly responsible for the domestic planning and control of Xiaoma Zhixing, has now joined the autonomous driving company Qianhang Technology as CTO.
Ruixuan Zhao, who served as vice president of strategic cooperation and financing at Xiaoma Zhixing, previously served as director of strategic development at Sina, director of global strategy at Lenovo, and project manager at McKinsey. On July 23, she established "Guangzhou Xingjiao Technology Co., Ltd." to enter the self-driving electric truck business, and Xiao Bo, one of the founding members of Xiaoma Zhixing, was the co-founder and CTO.
Chen Liming
Former President of Bosch Chassis Control Systems China Horizon President
On September 1, 2021, Horizon announced that Dr. Liming Chen, former President of Bosch Chassis Control Systems China, has joined Horizon as President.
Dr. Chen Liming joined the Bosch Group in 1995 as a technical expert, senior manager, director and vice president of R&D, and led the creation of the Bosch Chassis Control System R&D Center, the largest R&D center of Bosch in China. In 2012, he served as Senior Vice President of bosch Group and president of Bosch Chassis Control Systems Division in China, and is fully responsible for promoting the affairs of the Chassis Control Systems Division in China.
Dr. Yu Kai and Dr. Chen Liming, founders and CEOs of Horizon, both said that joining Horizon is based on the same cultural values of customer achievement and loneliness, and the common value concept of full vitamin altruism and openness and win-win results, and is committed to contributing better technologies, products and services to the intelligentization of the automobile industry and contributing to the early arrival of the era of intelligent automobiles.
Wang Weibao
Neolithic former CTO Jidu Automobile Intelligent Driving Leader
In August 2021, Wang Weibao joined Jidu Automobile as the head of intelligent driving of the company.
Wang Weibao graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications with a bachelor's degree, and then entered Purdue University in the United States to study electrical and computer engineering. After graduation, he worked in Apple's self-driving team as the technical leader of the computer vision special project team.
Two years later, he left Apple and returned to China for a short time to start a business, working as a technology VP for a medical company called Singularity.AI. He then went to Neolithic unmanned vehicles as CTO, where his main experience was mostly related to autonomous driving.
Jiang Jingfang
Former Senior Vice President of Bosch, Senior Vice President and Partner of Heduo Technology
At the end of June 2021, Heduo Technology announced that Jiang Jingfang, former senior vice president of Bosch, joined Heduo as a senior vice president and partner, directly responsible for the mass production of autonomous driving products.
Jiang Jingfang joined the Bosch Group in 2000 and was assigned to the Headquarters in Germany in 2011-12 as Vice President of Market Strategy for the Business Unit, and returned to China in early 2013 as head and senior vice president of the ADAS business unit. Over the next 8 years, with her forward-looking and unquestioning entrepreneurial spirit, she led the team from 20 to more than 500 people, achieving more than 6 times sales growth, and released many ADAS functions in China, including high-end functions such as L2.5 and remote parking, and even Bosch's first in the world.
Yellow bath
Former Vice President of Black Sesame Intelligent Autonomous Driving Technology Research Global AI Technology Officer and Chief Scientist of Zhitu Technology
In May 2021, Dr. Huang Yu, a top scientist in the field of computer vision, artificial intelligence and autonomous driving in the world, joined Zhitu Technology as the global AI technology officer and chief scientist, mainly responsible for the construction of the AI core algorithm platform and cutting-edge technology research of Zhitu Autonomous Driving, and realizing the engineering landing of commercial vehicle autonomous driving technology and products.
Dr. Huang Yu is a Chinese-American who served as vice president of autonomous driving technology research of Black Sesame Intelligent Technology, chief scientist of Singularity Automotive American Research and Innovation Center, president of Singularity Automotive USA, and core member of Baidu Meiyan Autonomous Driving. He also served as Chairman of the IEEE MIPR "Autonomous Driving" Innovation Forum, an international conference held in San Jose, Silicon Valley, California, in 2019, and received the 2020 Outstanding Industrial Leadership Award from the Asia and The Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA).
John Krafcik
Former CEO of Waymo, first CEO
John Krafcik announced in April 2021 that he had stepped down as WAYMO CEO, which was replaced by Dmitri Dolgov, one of the founders of Google's self-driving car project, and Tekedra Mawakana, co-operating officer.
A graduate of Stanford University, John Krafcik worked in Silicon Valley for two years, had a long career at Ford and Hyundai, and demonstrated excellent management skills. At Ford, he went all the way to the position of chief engineer; at Hyundai Motor, he was ceo of North America, but he achieved Hyundai's revenue growth when other auto companies were on the verge of bankruptcy in the 2008 financial crisis.
In 2015, Krafcik joined Waymo as its first CEO, before Waymo became an independent branch of Google, and he has been leading the division ever since.
Li
Founder and CEO of Sharon Zhixing's original leader, Youpao Technology
Only three months after taking over Sharon Zhixing, Li Peng, the original head of Sharon Zhixing, chose to leave his job and founded a smart electric vehicle company, Yo-Run Technology, in April 2021, focusing on the development of electric vehicle chassis.
Li Peng graduated from Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade with a degree in international economic law and joined Horizon in 2018 as the general manager of the Intelligent Driving Division. Since then, Li Peng has joined Great Wall Motors and is responsible for driving digital transformation. During his tenure at Great Wall Motor, he founded Xiandou Intelligence, an automotive intelligent networking digital company. In December 2020, Li Peng announced that he would step down as CDO of Great Wall Motors and move to a project known as "SL" (sharon Zhixing).
Li Peng believes that due to the separation of software and hardware of smart cars, the original two to three years of automobile research and development cycle will be shortened to 12 months, and the development cost will be reduced from hundreds of millions of dollars to 100 million US dollars. Based on the concept of vehicle intelligence and scene car building, Li Peng established today's Yo-Pao Technology.
Xia Yiping
Former Chief Technology Officer of Mobike, CEO of Jidu Automobile
In March 2021, Jidu Automobile was established, and Xia Yiping, who was the co-founder and chief technology officer of Mobike, became the CEO of Jidu Automobile.
Jidu Automobile is an automotive robot start-up company initiated by Baidu Group and invested by Geely Group. Robin Li commented on Xia Yiping, "understanding cars, understanding the Internet, having entrepreneurial experience, having a technical background, having passion, having a sense of mission, and being a very suitable and rare candidate", which may be the reason why Xia Yiping was selected to dominate Jidu Automobile in an all-round way.
Xia Yiping graduated from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications with a bachelor's degree and graduated from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications and information systems. He joined ZTE in charge of software development, communication system architecture, and product planning and marketing.
He has since joined Ford, where he is responsible for the localization of intelligent in-vehicle systems in China, the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Connected Vehicle Services division and the development of AppLink and its corresponding ecosystem. In May 2014, Xia Yiping became the head of Fiat Chrysler's Asia Pacific Intelligent Vehicle Co-operation Division, and then co-founded the non-profit automotive project Opencarlab (Open Source Automotive Lab).
After Xia Yiping joined Jidu Automobile, a number of important figures of the original Mobike bicycle also joined in succession. Including Zhang Hua, who has completed the IT construction of Mobike Bicycle, he is now the IT director of Jidu Automobile, and Chen Chaochao, who was responsible for Mobike's open platform business, is now the director of automotive products.
Gu Weihao
Former General Manager of Baidu Intelligent Automobile Division, CEO of Mo Mo Zhixing
In February 2021, Great Wall Motors announced that Gu Weihao, general manager of Baidu's Intelligent Automobile Division, has joined Great Wall Motor's Momo Zhixing as CEO.
It is reported that Gu Weihao joined Baidu in 2003, during which he was responsible for Baidu L3 level autonomous driving, car networking, maps and other businesses. In 2019, Baidu's autonomous driving business underwent organizational restructuring, and the intelligent automobile business unit was merged into the autonomous driving business unit, and Gu Weihao left shortly after.
After joining the millimeter, Gu Weihao and others set up a two-line development strategy for the passenger car and low-speed terminal logistics markets, and have achieved great results. In the field of terminal distribution, Zhixing has landed 1,000 unmanned vehicles with partners, and it is expected that the unmanned vehicle project will be expanded by 3 times in 2022.
Jaime Waydo
Cavnue, former head of Apple's self-driving car safety and regulation team
Jaime Waydo, who oversees the safety and regulation team for self-driving cars, left Apple to become chief technology officer at Cavnue, a startup focused on the safety of self-driving cars.
In 2018, Jaime Waydo put the halo of Waymo systems engineers on her head and joined Apple's self-driving car project. Prior to that, she was a chief maneuverability mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Under her leadership, the Curiosity Mars rover was once sent to Mars.
Tim Willis
Aeva, former Head of Global Supply and General Manager of Waymo, Vice President of Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Strategy
In February 2021, the Head of Manufacturing and Global Supply and General Manager of Waymo Laser Bear's LiDAR business left and joined machine vision company Aeva as Vice President of Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Strategy.
Prior to joining Waymo, he held the position of Senior Director of Global Supply Chain Management at Apple and as an executive at Lumileds, Motorola and Ford Motor.
Benjamin Lyon
Chief engineer of Astra, one of the founders of Apple's original Titan project
In February 2021, Benjamin Lyon, a veteran member of Apple's self-driving team, officially left to join commercial aerospace startup Astra as chief engineer.
Benjamin Lyon is one of the founders of Apple's self-driving car project, serving as Senior Director of Apple's Self-Driving Hardware. During his 21 years at Apple, he worked on Touch ID, the iPhone's fingerprint recognition technology, before joining Apple's self-driving car team.
Christopher Moore
One of the project leaders of Titan, Tesla's former director of autopilot software
Christopher Moore worked at Tesla in 2014 and five years later as director of autopilot software. After joining Apple, he will be under the command of Stuart Bowers of the former Tesla Autopilot team.
During his time at Tesla, he had repeatedly contradicted Musk.
Christopher Moore has publicly criticized Musk's promotion that Tesla is about to achieve L5 self-driving. He also told california motor vehicle authority officials that Tesla's claim that full self-driving in 2021 "does not fit the current state of the engineering field."
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