Xiaodi Hou
Chief Executive Officer at Bot Auto
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolXiaodi Hou is an autonomous vehicle pioneer and founder-CEO with a decade of hands-on experience turning academic AI and computer vision research into commercial self-driving truck platforms. After earning a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from Caltech and a B.Eng. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he co-founded TuSimple in 2015, serving as CTO, CEO and later board member before launching Bot Auto to focus on next-generation autonomous trucking. Known for bridging deep technical expertise with executive leadership, he has presented at major industry stages like Web Summit and NVIDIA GTC and been profiled in Wired and Forbes. Based in Houston, he combines rigorous research grounding with product-first engineering and a track record of scaling autonomy teams and safety-critical systems. An internationally recognized voice in AI for transportation, he brings both scientific credibility and operator-level pragmatism to commercial deployment challenges.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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amandasongmm/attractiveness_datamining
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
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