Founder & CEO of LightWheel AI · Embodied data infrastructureFounder & CEO of LightWheel AI · Embodied data infrastructure
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Founder and CEO of LightWheel AI (光轮智能, founded 2023), an embodied-AI synthetic-data company. A Peking University physics graduate with a quant-finance PhD from Columbia, he previously led autonomous-driving simulation at NVIDIA, Cruise and NIO. LightWheel builds a Physical AI simulation and synthetic-data platform that generates large-scale training data for robots and self-driving, addressing the industry's data shortage. It became China's first embodied-data unicorn, with revenue past 100M yuan and customers including NVIDIA, Google, Figure AI, 1X and BYD; in 2026 it raised over 1B yuan (A++/A+++, led by Ant Group).
Founder and CEO of LightWheel AI (光轮智能, founded 2023), an embodied-AI synthetic-data company. A Peking University physics graduate with a quant-finance PhD from Columbia, he previously led autonomous-driving simulation at NVIDIA, Cruise and NIO. LightWheel builds a Physical AI simulation and synthetic-data platform that generates large-scale training data for robots and self-driving, addressing the industry's data shortage. It became China's first embodied-data unicorn, with revenue past 100M yuan and customers including NVIDIA, Google, Figure AI, 1X and BYD; in 2026 it raised over 1B yuan (A++/A+++, led by Ant Group).