Tiancheng Lou

Tiancheng Lou
楼天城
Born1986 (age 37–38)
Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China
NationalityChinese
Other namesACRush
EducationTsinghua University
Known forCo-founder of pony.ai and achievements in competitive programming
AwardsCodeforces peak rating 3047
Tiancheng Lou
Traditional Chinese樓天城
Simplified Chinese楼天城
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLóu tiānchéng

Tiancheng Lou (Chinese: 楼天城; pinyin: Lóu Tiānchéng; born 1986) is a Chinese businessman who is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Pony.ai, an autonomous vehicle technology company.[1] He is also a competitive programmer whose achievements include winning the Google Code Jam twice in 2008 and 2009, winning the Topcoder Open Marathon in 2015 and being a gold medalist at the 2004 International Olympiad in Informatics, coming third overall.[1][2] In terms of prize money won in major competitions, Lou is currently the most successful competitive programmer from China.[3]

In 2017, Lou was included in the Innovators Under 35 list by MIT Technology Review magazine.[4] In 2022, Business Insider named him as one of the 35 under 35 rising stars of the autonomous-vehicle industry.[5]

  1. ^ a b "'Godfather' of hackers is backing this Chinese self-driving car start-up". South China Morning Post. 7 February 2018. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Profile of Tiancheng Lou - Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame". cphof.org. Archived from the original on 6 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Participants from China - Competitive Programming Hall Of Fame". cphof.org. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Tiancheng Lou | Innovators Under 35". www.innovatorsunder35.com. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  5. ^ Naughton, Alexa St John, Nora. "35 under 35: Meet the rising stars of the self-driving industry, from companies like Waymo, Cruise, and Zoox". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 11 December 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)