Tony Han is CEO & Co-founder of WeRide. WeRide is a smart mobility company in China that creates leading L4 autonomous driving technologies. Tony is a distinguished expert in computer vision, machine learning and speech recognition, as well as one of the pioneers in self-driving technology R&D in China. Under his leadership, WeRide obtained strategic investment from a top-tier global automaker Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi in 2018. Before establishing WeRide, he was former Chief Scientist of Baidu's Autonomous Driving Unit. He was also tenured professor of electrical & computer engineering at the University of Missouri (MU). What's more, Tony was the original contributor of DeepSpeech2, which was selected as one of ten breakthrough technologies in 2016 by MIT Technology Review.