Summary
Yuanqin Lu is a CTO and co-founder based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building production-grade perception and ML systems for autonomous driving and consumer applications. Previously a Technical Director at TuSimple, she led the deployment of an L4 autonomous driving stack in Japan and earlier contributed core vision algorithms—segmentation, detection, optical flow and stereo—across research and product roles. At Mercari she drove image-search and AR-driven cloth measurement solutions, combining ML modeling with system engineering on k8s, GCP and onnxruntime. Comfortable shipping from research to production in Python and C++, she blends hands-on algorithm development with cloud-native infrastructure and MLOps. Known for a relentless curiosity in computer vision, she pairs deep academic training from Tsinghua and the University of Tokyo with entrepreneurial grit.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software at Tsinghua University
Chinese, Japanese, English