Hou Xiaodi
Born in the 1980s in Beijing, Hou Xiaodi graduated in Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008. After completing his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2014, he returned to Beijing and co-founded Cogtu Technologies that specializes in image recognition for advertising. In August 2015, he co-founded TuSimple and became its president and CTO based in San Diego, USA.
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