# Jianxiong Xiao: person

Canonical ID: `1cda6a92-003c-4d8d-a440-2c06683b4940`

Founder and CEO of AutoX; led China's first fully-driverless robotaxi fleet (Shenzhen) before AutoX wound down its robotaxi business (~2024) and pivoted to private SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicles under the Tensor brand. Known as 'Professor X', previously an assistant professor at Princeton; PhD from MIT CSAIL.

- **Nationality:** Chinese
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Current roles (1)

- [AutoX](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/autox.md) Founder & CEO (AutoX; now operating as Tensor) (secondary-verified)

## Foundings (1)

- [AutoX](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/autox.md) founded 2016-01-01 (sole)

## Education (2)

- Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD (CSAIL)
- HKUST BEng/MPhil, Computer Science

## Sources (1)

1. https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/jianxiong-xiao/


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