Xiaodi Hou

Dr. Xiaodi Hou is the Founder and CEO of Bot Auto, an autonomous trucking company. Dr. Hou is an internationally renowned expert in autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computer vision. He earned a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Prior to Bot Auto, Dr. Hou co-founded TuSimple in 2015 and serves as the company’s CTO and CEO. He has presented at global events such as Web Summit and Nvidia’s GTC conference and has been featured in leading publications such as Wired and Forbes.