As a researcher, my interest is to analyze the internal representation of the mind. As the CTO of TuSimple LLC, my job is to streamline the process from academic research to real-world product.
An emphasis of my research rests on the behavioral similarity between computational models and the neural systems. Behaviors in humans, ranging from single cell recordings, to psychophysical experiments, are priceless reference for an artificial system. As long as the behavior data shows significant similarity, there must be a reason. And it is our goal to understand how and why such similarity occurs.
In TuSimple, our research is less constrained from short-term financial obligations than most of the research labs in universities, and completely free from publishing pressures of beating all other unrealistically complex algorithms on absurdily biased datasets, irrespective of implementation cost, maintenance cost, and runtime cost. I believe that this new venture will help us reach further than what is currently achievable for the academia.