Kimberli Zhong leads the engineering team for Applied Intuition’s verification and validation management products. She graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Applied Intuition provides simulation software and infrastructure tools to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous systems at scale. Our suite of products, focused on simulation, drive data management, and analytics, enables development teams to create thousands of scenarios in minutes, run simulations at scale, automate requirements management, and reduce on-road testing. Applied’s solution amplifies the real-world miles driven by picking edge cases from the drive data, creating variations of test scenarios, and supplementing them with synthetic data. Our solutions support safe operations of vehicles by catching failure cases early and enabling algorithm improvement post-deployment. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Detroit, Los Angeles, Munich, Tokyo, and Seoul, Applied is composed of software and automotive experts with experiences from the top global companies. Industry-leading companies of all sizes use Applied’s solutions to bring autonomy to market faster.