Yuan Li is a founding member of Horizon Robotics’ Silicon Valley branch and Director of the company’s Applied AI Lab. Before joining Horizon Robotics, she led teams at Google Research working on computer vision algorithms deployed in various Google products such as Image Search, Photos, Lens and Cloud Vision API. Yuan earned her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University and her master’s degree in computer science from the University of Southern California. She has published work in top tier conferences and journals, and authored the Best Student Paper at CVPR 2008.