Tete Xiao is Chief Technology Officer at Bot Auto and is a world-class researcher and engineer at the forefront of computer vision, robotics, and machine learning. He completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on scalable representations for vision and robotics. His academic work has garnered over 34,000 citations, and he is a co-author of Meta AI's landmark Segment Anything model — one of the most influential computer vision papers published in recent years. Before joining Bot Auto as VP of Engineering and AI, he co-founded PromptAI, bringing his expertise in physical AI from research to real-world deployment in autonomous trucking.