Presenter

Dr. Steve Xie is founder and CEO of Lightwheel, a company leading simulation infrastructure for embodied AI. Steve is a pioneer in generative-AI-powered simulation for robotics. He holds a B.S. from Peking University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Steve has led simulation efforts at NVIDIA and Cruise, where he built end-to-end synthetic data pipelines that set industry benchmarks for realism, scalability, and sim-to-real transfer.