Overview
Wang Yunpeng (born March 1976) is Vice President of Baidu Group and President and head of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG), and chairs the Intelligent Vehicle Branch of the China Computer Federation.
Career
He earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees at Beihang University between 1994 and 2003. Before Baidu he worked at Sony Ericsson on smartphone software R&D, project management and agile development transformation. He joined Baidu in April 2012 and served in the engineering efficiency, analysis and planning, and financial platform departments. From 2018 he directed the Baidu autonomous driving technology department, and in 2019 was promoted to senior director in charge of autonomous driving R&D management.
In 2020 he led the Ministry of Science and Technology's 2030 major project, the national new-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platform for autonomous driving. In April 2021 he was promoted to Vice President of Baidu with full responsibility for the autonomous driving business, and in December 2021 was elected chair of the Intelligent Vehicle Branch of the China Computer Federation. In November 2023 he was promoted to Vice President of Baidu Group and appointed head of the Intelligent Driving Group.
Work
Wang led teams that built the Beijing Apollo Park, developed the sixth-generation mass-produced robotaxi Apollo RT6, and built the autonomous mobility platform Apollo Go. The project "Research, development and industrialisation of autonomous driving systems for complex traffic scenarios" won a first prize of the 2021 Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award.