(Text/Zhang Wei) Recently, it was reported that Weilai Automobile ushered in a fierce soldier. Former director of Momentum R&D and an outstanding young man under the age of 30 from Forbes Asia joined Weilai as assistant vice president, reporting directly to Weilai CEO Li Bin.

It is reported that Jamie, the vice president of autonomous driving originally stationed in Weilai North America? Carlson left in June and returned to Apple? Project? Group one. Meanwhile, Jamie. Carlson's position has been vacant until recently Wei Lai found a successor Ren Shaoqing in China.

According to public information, Ren served as a partner and director of Momenta before joining Weilai. He is a doctoral student jointly trained by China University of Science and Technology and Microsoft Research Asia, and was awarded ImageNet? 20 15、MS？ Coco? 20 15 challenge champion, CVPR? 20 16 best paper and many other honors.

Momenta, an autonomous driving company, was founded on 20 16. Its core technologies are environmental awareness based on deep learning, high-precision maps and driving decision-making algorithms. Products include different levels of autonomous driving schemes and derived big data services. According to insiders of Momenta, Ren was almost "invisible" in the company in the past year, and his departure has little impact on Momenta's current actual business.

Previously, Weilai has deployed autopilot R&D teams in China and the United States, independently developed L2-level autopilot algorithmic capabilities, and simultaneously independently developed L4-level autopilot. With the increasing financial pressure, in 20 19, Weilai made several layoffs in the North American team. Ren Shaoqing's joining not only means that Weilai is shifting the focus of its autonomous driving strategy to China, but it is also likely that Weilai will continue to increase its investment in autonomous driving and regain its self-developed route.

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