Wei Xu
Chief Scientist Of General AI at Horizon Robotics
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolWei Xu is a veteran AI researcher and leader with over a decade of experience building large-scale, production-ready machine learning systems across industry leaders including Horizon Robotics, Baidu, Facebook, and NEC Labs. As Chief Scientist of General AI at Horizon Robotics he focuses on creating machines that learn diverse tasks with human-like efficiency and is actively hiring across NLP, vision, and RL. Previously he founded Baidu’s open-source deep learning effort (PaddlePaddle) and helped deploy recommendation and vision systems at massive scale, earning recognition as a leading technologist in China. Based in Los Gatos, he combines deep research pedigree (CMU/MS) with a track record of turning models into real-world products—from airport surveillance to billion-user recommendation engines—and a pragmatic belief that “learning more always pays off.”
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Tsinghua UniversityMS, MS at Carnegie Mellon UniversityGithub contributions (5)
mudou192/TimerTask
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
mudou192/AlgorithmDemo
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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