Xudong Cao
Chief Executive Officer at Momenta.ai
Haidian District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolXudong Cao is a serial AI entrepreneur and research-driven executive who has led Momenta as CEO since 2016, steering the company toward ambitious safety and efficiency goals in autonomous driving and mobility. With a PhD from HKUST and a decade of senior research roles at SenseTime and Microsoft, he blends deep technical expertise in AI with product and company-building experience. His leadership emphasizes measurable social impact—aiming to save lives and radically improve logistics efficiency—while translating cutting-edge research into deployed systems. Based in Beijing’s Haidian District and grounded in an engineering mechanics background from Tsinghua, he is as comfortable in lab papers as in boardroom strategy, often bridging academic rigor and commercial scale.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Engineering Mechanics, Bachelor's degree, Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (42)
modality10
geometry10
geometric10
scale10
optical-flow10
descriptor10
database10
3d-reconstruction10
large-scale9
stereo9
3d9
localization9
visual-recognition9
structure-from-motion9
computer-vision8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lzx551402/ASLFeat
Feb 2020 - Apr 2020
Implementation of CVPR'20 paper - ASLFeat: Learning Local Features of Accurate Shape and Localization
Contributions:32 commits, 17 pushes, 3 comments in 2 months
pytorchlocal-featuresaccuratecvprlocalization
lzx551402/contextdesc
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Implementation of CVPR'19 paper (oral) - ContextDesc: Local Descriptor Augmentation with Cross-Modality Context
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 1 year
pytorchcross-modalitydeep-learningdescriptoroptical-flow
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