Gasgoo Munich-INFIFORCE made a key executive move on February 25, 2026: Wang Yizhou, a founding member of Nvidia's DriveAV unit, has been appointed chief technology officer. He will take charge of technical strategy and team management, partnering with scientist Chen Jiayu—who joined last year—to drive development of the company's "embodied brain."
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Wang has built a reputation in Silicon Valley's autonomous driving circles as a hands-on operator. As an early member of the Nvidia DriveAV division, he helped design the underlying architecture for autonomous driving software stacks. His career spans both academia and industry. He studied under control theory pioneer Masayoshi Tomizuka at UC Berkeley. Later, he led the build-out of Nvidia's software stack from scratch. He defined the World Model API standard for Daimler-Benz. Most recently, he engineered a data closed-loop system capable of processing 50 million data points and deploying them across millions of terminals.
As CTO, Wang will form a "theory plus engineering" dual-engine architecture with Chen. The team plans to tackle three priorities. First, they will import the World Model and nonlinear control theory from autonomous driving into robotics to optimize the collaboration between the "brain" decision-making and "cerebellum" execution of the Hyper-VLA large model. Second, the team will leverage his AI infrastructure expertise to build a more efficient data closed-loop. This addresses robustness challenges for general robots in complex environments. Third, they will advance "integrated sensing and computation" to enhance the generalization capabilities of the embodied brain in the physical world.
