January 5, Alibaba vice president and head of the Dharma Institute's automatic driving laboratory Wang Gang has recently left the company. Wang Gang left, or will choose to start a business in the field of cleaning robots, and has already received financing. At present, Alibaba said that it appreciates Wang Gang's contribution to the Dharma Institute's driverless technology, and wishes Wang Gang well.
Data shows that Wang Gang was a tenured professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and is also one of the 10 young science and technology innovators under the age of 35 in Asia selected by the global MIT. His research areas include deep learning and its application to computer vision and autonomous driving.
After joining Ali Dharma Institute in 2017, Wang Gang was the Chief Scientist of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and presided over the development of the first generation of Tmall Elf AI system. During his tenure as head of the Dharma Institute's autonomous driving lab, Wang Gang and his team are working on the development of a next-generation embedded intelligent machine vision understanding system, which will be used as the core to build Alibaba's unmanned logistics system, including unmanned delivery trucks, unmanned trucks, and sorting robots.
In September 2011, Wang Gang said that the Dharma Institute was developing an L4-level self-driving truck, the "Big Savage Donkey," and that it had already cooperated with Caijiao to start a small-scale road test. It is expected that after three years, the unmanned truck can be seen on tens of thousands of public roads.