Summary
Ning Qu is a seasoned technical and business leader with nearly a decade of industry experience building vehicle operating systems and high-performance runtimes for autonomous driving and EV platforms. As Head of Vehicle System at Applied Intuition and formerly VP of Engineering leading NIO’s SkyOS, he has architected multi-OS platforms and middleware that run across every ECU domain and supported mass production deployments exceeding 120K vehicles in 15 months. His career spans pivotal systems roles at Waymo, Baidu, Google and NVIDIA where he delivered ML runtimes, Cyber RT (an open-source autonomous driving framework used in production at scale), kernel optimizations and hardware-software co-design for safety-critical systems. Trained as an OS researcher with a Ph.D. from Peking University and postdoctoral work at CMU, he bridges deep academic influence (including highly cited security hypervisor work) with product-driven execution. Less obvious: he repeatedly translates cutting-edge research into fielded platforms—from SecVisor-inspired security foundations to AGI-ready in-vehicle AI roadmaps—making him as comfortable in low-level kernel work as in shaping corporate technical strategy.
9 years of coding experience