MWS China 2021 Speaker
Weide Zhang
Weide Zhang is chief architect of FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co.,Ltd supervising the development of L2-L4 development of autonomous technology. Before FAW, he was a senior architect at Baidu and one of the early founding members of Baidu Apollo team. Before Baidu, he had been working in various areas of system development as well as machine learning in the past 7 years. He has Masters degree in Computer Science and System Engineering from University of Virginia and Bachelors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The Requirements of Lidar in Autonomous Driving
Lidar plays an important role in autonomous driving. The 3d geometry information obtained from lidar makes it suitable for tasks such as object detection, localization, etc. I will showcase the autonomous driving system we built in FAW Nanjing and talks about the strengths and challenges of using Lidar as main sensor. In addition, I will talk about what Lidar can accomplish in L2-L4 driving and sensor level requirements for autonomous driving from OEM prospective.
FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., Ltd
FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., LTD (referred to as FAW Nanjing Company) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FAW Group Corporation, which was established on April 9, 2020. FAW Nanjing Company, as FAW Group Corporation’s Artificial Intelligence research and development center, mainly focus on AI perception system and AI big data platfom. The AI perception system is able to support L2-L4 autonomous driving. The AI big data platform includes data analysis, customer behavior analysis, and so on. The company aim to be a reliable intelligent driving partner, who infuses vehicles with soul, and makes travel easier.
Alex Gu
Coralie Gallis graduated as a PhD in Materials Sciences from Paris University and has an engineering degree in Physic-Chemistry. Coralie has worked for 20 years in the semiconductor field, holding various positions in different companies from software designer, Intelligent Specialist, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships. During her career, she developed the business for various domains such as BioMedical electronics, wearable electronics for healthcare, sport, wellness and Food industry. Since 2016, she is based in Silicon Valley, California and manages the Strategic Industrial Partnerships for the North American Market for CEAtech, a French technology research center.
Michelle M. Bourke received a B.Sc. degree in Optoelectronics and Laser Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K., in 1993. Subsequently she joined the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), where she worked on advanced processing methods for GaAs/AlGaAs optoelectronic devices. In 1997 Michelle moved to the semiconductor capital equipment industry as an etch process engineer. In 1999 she moved into Product Marketing where she has continued to develop her career. Today Michelle is with Lam Research Corporation as the Senior Strategic Marketing Director in the Customer Support Business Group.
Dr. Mary Ann Maher received her Ph.D. from Caltech in 1989 in the area of semiconductor device modeling. At Tanner Research she began the simulation and modeling group and launched Tanner’s T-Spice analog circuit simulator product. As Director of Advanced Products, she brought to market Tanner’s MEMS Pro microsystem and MCM Pro multi-chip module and packaging design tool. Moving to MEMSCAP, she became the company’s CTO and the General Manager and Executive Vice President of the Design Automation Business Unit. In 2004, she started SoftMEMS, LLC, the maker of the popular microsystems design tools – MEMS Pro and MEMS Xplorer, where she serves as CEO.
