Dr. Kai YU is Founder & CEO of Horizon Robotics, a leading provider of ADAS and AD solutions for passenger vehicles. Dr. Yu is an internationally recognized leading researcher. He led the R&D at Baidu from April 2012 to June 2015. His team developed cutting-edge technologies to transform voice search, computer vision, online advertising and web search, and unprecedentedly won the Baidu Highest Achievement Award for 3 times. In 2013, Dr. Yu launched Baidu autonomous driving project. Dr. Yu has published around 100 papers with more than 17,000 citations. Before joining Baidu, he worked at Microsoft, Siemens, NEC. He received his B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in E&E from Nanjing University, China, and a doctorate degree in Computer Science from University of Munich, Germany.