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Yan Li

Co-founder, CTO and director of WeRide; previously a senior engineer at Facebook/Meta and an applied researcher at Microsoft. PhD from Carnegie Mellon.

Chinese · 1 current role · 1 founding

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WeRideverified→
Founder
Global autonomous-driving company (NASDAQ: WRD; HKEX: 0800), founded 2017, operating one of the world's most internationally diversified robotaxi businesses acr
Series D · $310M5 verified deployments · Robotaxi GXR at Dubai →1 incident1 model
Metaverified→
Former Senior engineer (Facebook)
[Meta platforms](/companies/meta-platforms) (NASDAQ: META) is a technology conglomerate operating Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
4 verified deployments · Ray-Ban Meta at United States (multiple hotel chains) →1 model

Current roles (1)

WeRide Co-founder & CTOSecondary-verified

Foundings (1)

WeRidefounded 2017-01-01cofounder

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Co-founders (1)

Tony Han co-founded WeRide2017-01-01

Board seats (1)

WeRide director

Former / Previously (1)

Meta Senior engineer (Facebook)Secondary-verified

Education (1)

Carnegie Mellon University PhD, ECE

Sources (1)

https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=1867729

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