David Li

Co-Founder & CEO at Sharpa

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Dr. Yifan “David” Li is a Co-Founder of Sharpa and Co-Founder & CEO of Hesai Technology. A robotics and motion-control engineer, he holds a PhD in Robotics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and previously worked as a Principal Engineer at Western Digital. He co-founded Sharpa as a full-stack Physical AI company developing dexterous robotic hands, humanoid robots and embodied-AI systems.