Steve (Chen) Xie

Dr. Steve (Chen) Xie is a globally recognized expert in simulation and physical AI, serving as the Founder and CEO of Lightwheel AI, a world-leading simulation and data infrastructure company for embodied AI. With a B.S. in Physics from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Finance from Columbia University, he previously led autonomous driving simulation efforts at NVIDIA, Cruise, and NIO, and is internationally recognized as the pioneer who first integrated generative AI into simulation. Under his leadership, Lightwheel AI has grown into the world's first unicorn in embodied AI data, with its simulation platform used by over 80% of the world's top embodied AI teams, including NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Toyota, and Bosch.

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