Junli Gu
Founder & Chief Executive Officer at ZDrive.ai (大卓智能科技有限公司)
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJunli Gu is a founder and AI-driven autonomous vehicle leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade self-driving systems and teams. Based in Palo Alto, he cofounded ZDrive.ai as a Chery Automotive subsidiary to deliver pilot-level autonomy for million-plus annual production cars, after scaling XPeng’s global AD organization and architecting the acclaimed P7 ADAS. His background blends hands-on machine learning and inference engine development at Tesla with system- and hardware-aware research from AMD and UIUC, enabling practical end-to-end implementations from sensor suites to cloud training infrastructure. He has repeatedly grown technical teams rapidly—building a 50-person Silicon Valley subsidiary in a year—and bridged partnerships with major cloud and auto players to operationalize TB-scale data pipelines. Known for shipping high-impact features (highway pilot, traffic-jam pilot, surround reality, super memory parking), he combines deep academic rigor with startup execution and an unusual knack for translating cutting-edge ML into manufacturable automotive products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PHD Research Scholar, PHD Research Scholar at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignDoctorate Electronics Engineering, Doctorate Electronics Engineering at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (36)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
caffe9
ml9
neural-network9
opencl8
deep-neural-networks8
pytorch8
portable7
mxnet7
gpu7
julia7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
amd/OpenCL-caffe
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 months
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gujunli/Autoencoder-RBM
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 7 months
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