Huawei's self-driving CTO Chen Yilun resigned and moved to Tsinghua AIR

Dr. Chen Yilun is both the CTO of Huawei's autonomous driving system and the chief scientist of the car BU. From 0 to 1, he led the full-stack research and development of Huawei's first-generation autonomous driving system.

The sub-department he is directly responsible for is the Intelligent Driving Products Department.

That is to say, Dr. Chen Yilun is not only the "brain" of Huawei's autonomous driving, but also the core product leader of Huawei's automobile strategy.

Such a key person has left at the stage when Huawei is promoting smart cars at full speed. The news was first exposed by LatePost.

The smart car reference has just confirmed that Dr. Chen Yilun has joined Dr. Zhang Yaqin of Tsinghua University and joined the Institute of Intelligent Industry (AIR) of Tsinghua University as the chief expert on intelligent robotics.

Huawei's self-driving technology "brain" leaves

Chen Yilun, in Huawei's position, is the CTO and chief scientist of the autonomous driving system of the Intelligent Vehicle Solutions Division.

Huawei's Smart Car Solutions Division, the car BU that everyone is familiar with, is headed by Yu Chengdong, who is responsible for the overall work of Huawei's automotive business.

Under the car BU, there are 15 sub-departments, including the MDC product department, the car control product department, the car cloud product department, and so on.

In the public information, it can be found that the department directly responsible for Chen Yilun is the intelligent driving product department, serving as the chief architect.

Therefore, Chen Yilun's role in Huawei's smart car business is not only the highest technical person in charge, but also the person in charge of Huawei's smart car solution, and the products in charge of this position are "HUAWEI Inside" and "Huawei Smart Choice" that Huawei directly connects with car companies. the core of the pattern.

To put it more bluntly, Huawei's understanding of smart car products and industries, as well as the underlying technologies, all use Chen Yilun as the directly responsible person.

According to the latest official news, during his tenure at Huawei, Chen Yilun was indeed responsible for the design of Huawei's high-end autonomous driving technology solutions, and he led the full-stack research and development of Huawei's first-generation autonomous driving system from 0 to 1 .

That is, Huawei's intelligent driving system, which will be mass-produced and launched on the BAIC Polar Fox A αS and Avita 11.

Huawei is an extremely important player in the smart car track, and Chen Yilun is an extremely important key figure in Huawei's promotion of the automotive business. His movements and whereabouts have great potential to influence the industry structure.

Invested in Tsinghua AIR under the command of Zhang Yaqin

Chen Yilun's whereabouts have been clear and have been officially announced:

Joined the Institute of Intelligent Industry (AIR) of Tsinghua University as the chief expert in the direction of intelligent robots.

Like Dr. Zhang Yaqin, Dean of AIR, Ma Weiying, former Vice President of ByteDance, and Zhao Feng, former Haier CTO, they chose to return to academia from industry.

Chen Yilun himself also made the following statement on joining AIR:

Every Tsinghua student has the desire to give back to their alma mater. It is my lifetime honor and pride to study at Tsinghua University. I have always hoped to have the opportunity to contribute to my alma mater.

The products produced by enterprises and the technologies developed by colleges and universities promote and complement each other. The vast majority of successful technological innovations have played a huge role in production and life. The combination of technological innovation and industrialization that AIR upholds is very consistent with my wishes.

In the future, it will shift from product-driven to technology-driven and pay more attention to the depth and height that technology itself can achieve. The main goal is to find technological innovation topics of great value in the field of AI robots.

Chen Yilun's resume

Chen Yilun, Ph.D. graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Michigan.

He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.

Before joining Huawei, Chen Yilun worked as a technical expert and project manager at Eaton, an intelligent power management company, and joined DJI as the chief engineer in 2017.

In 2018, Chen Yilun joined Huawei as the chief scientist of the autonomous driving department, responsible for perception technology.

Chen Yilun has published more than 30 papers, which have been cited more than 2,000 times by peers, and has 16 invention patents .

Has been awarded the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Senior Engineer.