James Peng is the Founder and CEO of Pony.ai, a company he established in 2016. Pony.ai focuses on developing self-driving technology. Peng is recognized for his expertise in self-driving, large-scale distributed systems, large-scale data processing and storage, database pipeline optimization, and performance tuning. He is also proficient in programming languages such as C++, Python, and SQL, and object-oriented programming.

Prior to founding Pony.