Dong Li
Chief Technology Officer at QCraft AI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top expert inAutonomous Robotics and Computer Vision Development
Dong Li is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Sunnyvale with 12 years of experience building autonomy and large-scale systems. He has led engineering teams at QCraft AI—rising from Tech Lead Manager of Behavior to Chief Technology Officer—and previously solved core planning challenges in Waymo’s self-driving stack. His background includes system architecture and planning algorithm design for Baidu Apollo, contributions to ads and search systems, and early research on mobile sensing during a PhD at Ohio State. Dong blends deep research pedigree with hands-on product delivery across perception-to-planning pipelines, making him effective at turning academic ideas into production-grade autonomy software. He is comfortable operating at the intersection of algorithms, system design, and team leadership, and has a track record of shipping complex features for real-world autonomous vehicles. An unexpected thread through his career is a consistent focus on predicting and modeling human behavior—from Nokia location-prediction work to behavior planning for self-driving cars.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.E Information Security, B.E Information Security at University of Science and Technology of ChinaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (41)
robotics10
machine-learning10
autonomy10
autonomous-vehicles10
self-driving-car10
apollo10
autonomous-driving10
build-system9
bazel9
bazel-rules9
scalable9
extensible9
spring8
spring-boot8
ubuntu8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
startcode/apollo
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
An open autonomous driving platform
Contributions:1235 pushes, 201 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 2 months
autonomousmachine-learningautonomous-drivingautopilotmavlink
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