DRIVING INSTITUTE
Prof. Zexiang Li
Prof. Li is a professor of HKUST and a renowned entrepreneur. During the last 25 years, he has founded and incubated more than 100 startups with a survival rate of more than 80%, among them, there are a number of famous unicorns such as DJI, NARWAL, Ecoflow，CiDI，and public listed company Googal Tech. He is also the founder of Hong Kong InnoX Academy, Shenzhen InnoX Academy and XbotPark.
He received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley. He had held previous positions at MIT's AI Lab and the Robotics Lab of NYU. And 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
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 for 8 years in National Semiconductor Labs and 6 years for Texas Instrument’s Kilby Labs in Silicon Valley. He also founded and worked in a number of smaller size companies and startups in US and Singapore. He returned China in 2017 and co-founded CiDi and has acted as CEO. He has grown the company from zero to a 500 people unicorn company and revenue reached ￥500m. In addition, Dr. Wei Ma is also an expert in industrial strategy and innovation methodologies, with in-depth research on intelligent connected vehicles and autonomous driving products.
Dr. Ma received Ph.D. from University of Surrey, UK and an expert in the fields of signal processing, processor architecture, embedded systems, wireless communications, and intelligent driving.
Changsha Intelligent Driving Institute (CiDi) 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 "Towards a Better Life Together 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 headquarters are 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 more than 500 employees, with R&D comprising 76%, and more than 50% of the team holding PhDs or master’s degrees.
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