Jie Hou

Engineering Director @Pony.ai

Fremont, CN

Solve self-driving with cutting-edge AI and system engineering!Currently working on mass production L2+ autonomous driving features for car OEMs with a focus on automatic parking assist and home zone parking assist (AVM, PDC, APA, H-AVP, etc.). Leading a team of engineers and managers working on sensors, perception, planning, control, mapping, localization and applications.Worked on L4 self driving technology on RoboTaxi and RoboTruck, with wide experiences across onboard and offline algorithms and infrastructures.2022-10 ~ Now: Eng Dir, Parking2021-09 ~ 2022-10: TLM, Prediction (intent prediction, motion prediction, trajectory generation)2021-01 ~ 2021-09: TLM, Head of map and localization for autonomous trucks (PonyTron)2020-04 ~ 2021-01: TLM, Head of machine learning infra and perception onboard infra2019-12 ~ 2020-04: Eng, Prediction (mostly prediction onboard infra)2017-06 ~ 2019-12: Eng, Perception (lidar & camera perception, tracking)

Beijing Yanqing No 1 Middle School

High school

Tsinghua University

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology

University of Michigan

Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering