CV

Education

• Ph.D in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2024
• M.S. in Mechatronics Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2011
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2007

Work Experience

• 2025: TARS Robotics (Shanghai)
  • Shanghai
  • Co-founder & Chief Architect
  • Duties included: Leading the development of robotics systems and end-to-end large models
• 2023: Tsinghua University AIR Institute
  • Wuxi, Jiangsu
  • Chief Scientist of Robotics
  • Leading research on robotics and autonomous driving projects
• 2019: Huawei Autonomous Driving Solution (ADS)
  • Shanghai
  • Director of Intelligent Navigation Department, Chief Expert of Spatial Perception
  • Leading research and development of ADS 1.0 and ADS 2.0, deployed in commercial vehicles such as AVATR (长安阿维塔) and AITO M5/M7 (问界)

Awards

• 2025: Shanghai Oriental Talent Program — Young Talent Project
  • Shanghai Municipal Talent Office
  • Distinguished young talent support program
• 2020: Huawei Gold Medal Individual
  • Huawei Autonomous Driving Solution (ADS)
  • Highest individual honor awarded by Huawei (top 1%)

Publications

Traffic Flow-Based Crowdsourced Mapping in Complex Urban Scenario

Tong Qin, Haihui Huang, Ziqiang Wang, Tongqing Chen, Wenchao Ding. (2023). "Traffic Flow-Based Crowdsourced Mapping in Complex Urban Scenario." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

Inverse perspective mapping-based neural occupancy grid map for visual parking

Xiangru Mu, Haoyang Ye, Daojun Zhu, Tongqing Chen, Tong Qin. (2023). "Inverse Perspective Mapping-Based Neural Occupancy Grid Map for Visual Parking." 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

A Light-Weight Semantic Map for Visual Localization towards Autonomous Driving

Tong Qin, Yuxin Zheng, Tongqing Chen, Yilun Chen, Qing Su. (2021). "A Light-Weight Semantic Map for Visual Localization towards Autonomous Driving." 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

AVP-SLAM: Semantic Visual Mapping and Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in the Parking Lot

Tong Qin, Tongqing Chen, Yilun Chen, Qing Su. (2020). "AVP-SLAM: Semantic Visual Mapping and Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in the Parking Lot." 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).