Sources Say Senior Principal Research Manager Wang Jingdong Left Microsoft Research Asia and May Join Baidu – Pandaily

Several individuals familiar with the matter have told Chinese media outlet Leiphone that Wang Jingdong, Senior Principal Research Manager with the Visual Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia, has left his position. People predict that Wang may now be preparing to join Baidu. First, Professor Yang Ruigang, former Director and chief scientist for 3D computer vision of Baidu's Robot and Autonomous Driving Laboratory, joined Inceptio Technology, an autonomous driving truck technology and operating company, as CTO at the beginning of last year, so the position at Baidu has been vacant. Secondly, Xiao Jianxiong, the founder of AutoX , who had studied…