Hang Zhang

Hang Zhang is a Principal Engineer and Head of the Foundation Model Team at XPeng Motors, where he works on end-to-end vision-language model foundation models for autonomous driving. He has nine years of industry experience, with prior roles as Senior Staff Applied Scientist at Cruise and Research Scientist at Meta, where he led perception model consolidation and efficient architecture research. He is best known for his contributions to computer vision and deep learning, including the creation of ResNeSt, GluonCV, AutoGluon, and context encoding for semantic segmentation, with his work accumulating over 10,000 citations.