Qingxiong YANG is Vice President of WeRide, a global leading autonomous driving company.He is also Dean of WeRide Research Institute.WeRide is the first self-driving company to obtain strategic investment from top-tier global automakers, which include Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi and Yutong Group, as well as the first startup in the world holding driverless test permits in both China and the US.Dr.Yang is responsible for WeRide’s autonomous driving products innovation, while overseeing the company’s research institute.Dr.Yang is a well-respected expert in the autonomous driving industry and a renowned scholar in computer vision.He had served as Senior Director of Autonomous Driving in DiDi Chuxing and Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the City University of Hong Kong.In July 2019, he received the Industrial Distinguished Leader Award by the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) for his significant contributions to the field of autonomous driving.Dr.Yang has published and presented over 30 academic papers at top-tier computer vision conferences and in major journals (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/IJCV/PAMI).Dr.Yang received his Ph.D.in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2010.