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Commercializing Autonomous Trucks Safely and Quickly

Date and Time: Wednesday, July 12, 2023: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Yanbing Li 

Senior VP of Engineering, Aurora
@aurora_inno

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Speaker Biography

Dr. Yanbing Li is a global business and technology leader with extensive leadership experience building market leading products and hyper-growth businesses of $1B+ in the US and China.

Yanbing is currently a Senior Vice President of Engineering at Aurora, the company building self-driving technology to deliver the benefits of the future of transportation safely, quickly, and broadly. She leads all software development for Aurora including autonomy, ground truth, mapping, simulation, platform, cloud infrastructure and data platform.

Prior to Aurora, Yanbing was a Vice President of Product and Engineering at Google, responsible for the commerce platform for cloud, and operations management and service infrastructure powering both Google Cloud and Google.

Prior to Google, Yanbing was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Storage and Availability Business Unit at VMware. She led product development, engineering, and go to market and built one of the fastest growing businesses and a new $1B category for VMware. During her tenure with VMware, she held multiple executive leadership roles including VP of Engineering for Storage, VP of Central Engineering, VP of Global R&D Sites, and Managing Director of China R&D.

Yanbing worked at Synopsys (a leading Electronic Design Automation software maker) for nine years in various research, development, and engineering leadership roles.

Yanbing holds a Ph.D. degree from Princeton University, a Master's degree from Cornell University, and a BS degree from Tsinghua University (Beijing), in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering.

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