Cao Xudong
Cao Xudong is the founder and CEO of Momenta, a Chinese autonomous driving company he established in 2016. He graduated from Tsinghua University and previously conducted artificial intelligence research at Microsoft Research Asia and SenseTime, publishing papers in top-tier computer vision conferences including CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. He is best known for proposing Momenta's data-driven strategy for scalable autonomous driving and leading the company's partnerships with major global and Chinese automakers.
“"Truly believing means when you encounter all problems, you start from this angle to solve them. When you face difficulties and can't solve them, you don't retreat to other methods — instead you ask, how do I innovatively change my architecture and system so the data-driven approach can work."”
Source→“"Sun Jian's help to me was really enormous. His working style was extremely grounded, extremely focused on experiments, and especially on experimental phenomena that were very inconsistent with your expectations — those might be where the most significant discoveries lie."”
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