Zhen Li

Zhen Li is the Executive Director of Perception at WeRide.ai. Zhen has 9 months of experience in this role, during which they have been responsible for making cars "see". Prior to this, they worked at Google for 8 years and 8 months, where they were a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Image Understanding Team and a Co-Lead of the team. Zhen also worked as a Senior Software Engineer on the team. In their role, they were responsible for developing and owning Google-wide, product-oriented CV and multimodal signals from close- and open-vocabulary classification, object detection and segmentation, to vision and multimodal representations (embeddings). These signals are used in nearly all products that touch pixels, and power 100+ product functions and features. Zhen Li also worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 5 years and 8 months. Prior to their work at Google, they interned at the company for 8 months.

Zhen Li has a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Electrical and Computer Engineering, which they received in 2013. Zhen also has a degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Electronic Engineering, which they received in 2007. Prior to that, they attended Xiaogan High School from 2000 to 2003.