While at Baidu, Jing Wang managed over 5,000 engineers in numerous business units, including the ones he founded: Mobile, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Baidu Research, and Autonomous Driving. He left the company shortly after Andrew Ng’s resignation to start his own self-driving car company, and is widely credited with driving forward Baidu’s progress in the space.

Prior to joining Baidu, Wang was Deputy Head of Google’s Shanghai engineering office as well as eBay China’s CTO and R&D general manager. He received his Bachelor’s from the University of Science & Technology of China and his Master’s in Computer Science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.