Prof. Zexiang Li
Prof. Li is a robotics professor at HKUST and a renowned entrepreneur. During the last 25 years, he has founded and incubated more than 100 startups, among them are several famous unicorns such as DJI, NARWAL, Ecoflow, CiDi, and public listed company Googol Tech. He is also the founder of Hong Kong InnoX Academy, Shenzhen InnoX Academy, and XbotPark.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He had held previous positions at MIT's AI Lab and the Robotics Lab of NYU. Currently he is a professor at the ECE department of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)。He received the IEEE Robotics and Automation Technical Field Award in 2019.
Chief System Architect
Dr. Wei Ma
Dr. Wei Ma is a veteran Silicon Valley technologist with 20+ years of technical management experience. He worked as director of system research at National Semiconductor Labs and as research director for Texas Instrument’s Kilby Labs in California. He also founded and worked at a number of smaller size companies and startups in US and Singapore. He returned to China in 2017 and co-founded CiDi. Dr. Wei Ma is an expert in industrial strategy and innovation methodologies, with in-depth research on intelligent connected vehicles and autonomous driving products.
Dr. Ma received his Ph.D. from University of Surrey, UK, with expertise in signal processing, processor architecture, embedded systems, wireless communications, and intelligent driving.
Chief of CiDiLabs Research Institute
Dr. Albert Sibo Hu
Dr. Albert Sibo Hu joined CiDi in 2018 and has served in several key engineering roles at the company, including as principal scientist, head of controls and simulation, and chief of CiDiLabs Research Institute – the company’s central research arm. He has over a decade of experience developing automated systems and currently oversees daily operations at the company.
Dr. Hu received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. With a strong focus on analytics, he ensures that each product iteration at CiDi reflects the company's commitment to innovation and engineering excellence.
CiDi Inc. was founded in October 2017, and focuses on technological innovation and execution to create practical intelligent driving products for commercial vehicles. Founded by Professor Li Zexiang – renowned robotics entrepreneur and professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – CiDi is a unicorn enterprise in autonomous driving.
CiDi’s vision is "Embrace better life with intelligent driving". We are committed to building innovative products in intelligent driving and vehicle-to-infrastructure technology that help make transportation safer, more efficient, and sustainable.
As the industry’s earliest autonomous driving company to lay out cooperative vehicle-to-road technology, CiDi products encompass "smart vehicles" and "intelligent roads", including autonomous heavy trucks, unmanned electric mining trucks, and driverless logistics vehicles for industrial parks. With a rich suite of products for cooperative vehicles, CiDi provides multiple types of intelligent networking solutions for connected vehicle pilot areas, dual-intelligence cities, and smart expressways – allowing intelligent vehicles to take full advantage of digital infrastructure.
CiDi Inc. is situated in Changsha, with subsidiaries covering Northern China (Tianjin), Northwest China (Chongqing, Chengdu), Southwest China (Liuzhou) and Southern China (Shenzhen). At present, CiDi has a team of 426 employees, with R&D comprising 57.3%, and more than 50% of the team holding PhDs or master’s degrees.
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