Jian Yao (Preferred)
Jian Yao
Director of AI, XPeng Motors
Joined
February 2019
Names
Emails
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@cs.toronto.edu
****@ttic.edu
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Director of AI
XPeng Motors (xpeng.com)
2024 – Present
Staff ML Engineer
Apple (apple.com)
2018 – 2024
Senior ML Scientist
NVIDIA (nvidia.com)
2016 – 2018
PhD student
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (cs.toronto.edu)
2010 – 2015
MS student
TTI Chicago (ttic.edu)
2010 – 2013
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coauthor
Srikumar Ramalingam
2015 – 2015
Expertise
VLA in Robotics manipulation
2024 – Present
LLM & VLM foundation model
2021 – Present
Machine Learning in General
2009 – Present
Computer Vision (2D/3D scene understanding
, Human Pose
, end2end self-driving)
2009 – Present