Chair Professor, Tsinghua UniversityDean of Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua UniversityDr. Ya-Qin Zhang is Chair Professor of AI Science at Tsinghua University, and Dean of Institute for AI Industry Research of Tsinghua University (AIR). He was the President of Baidu Inc. from 2014 to 2019. Prior to Baidu, Dr. Zhang was a Microsoft executive for 16 years with different key pos...
Wei-Ying Ma is a Huiyan Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and the Chief Scientist at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), which he co-founded with Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang in 2020. Currently, he is leading a team of faculties to work on AI for Science, with a particular focus on AI-powered drug discovery and generative AI for biology and chemistry. In addition, he has co-founded Helixon, a startup aimed at developing next-generation AI for antibody design and protein therapeutics discovery. From 2021-2023, he served as the Director of Health Computing Research Center with Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI).
Dr. Feng Zhao is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University, focusing on AI and IoT research, and a Venture Partner at Eight Roads Ventures, focusing on enterprise technology investment.Dr. Zhao was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President at Haier ((#1 in global appliance market share according to Euromonitor data), from 2015 to 2019....
Yang Liu is GDS Professor.He is Executive Dean of Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University,Deputy Director in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University.His research focuses on natural language processing. He has published over 80 papers in leading NLP/AI journals and conferences such as Computational Linguistics, ACL, AAAI, EMNLP, and COLING. ...
Dr. Zaiqing Nie is a Named Professor at Tsinghua University and Principal Researcher of AIR. He is also the Director of the Big Data Intelligence Lab at AIR, where he conducts research and leads projects related to AI and Big Data analytics. In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Nie is the founder and chief scientist of Pharmolix Inc., a global provider of foundation models for the biopharmace...
Dr. Yunxin Liu is a Guoqiang Professor and Principal Investigator at Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University. He joined Tsinghua University in April 2021, prior to which he was a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests are mobile/edge computing, with the recent focus on intelligent edge/mobile systems. His work has been published in top conf...
Prof. Jingjing Liu is Professor, Principal Investigator at Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University. Her current research interests span from Multimodal LLM to AI for Science and Reinforcement Learning. Prof. Liu has published 100+ papers at top AI conferences and journals (CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, etc.) with 15,000+ citations, and has received the Best Student Paper Honorable M...
Dr. Yanyan Lan is currently professor of AIR, Tsinghua University. From July 2011 to February 2021, she worked as a professor at Institute of Computing Technology, CAS. Her research fields are information retrieval, machine learning and natural language processing. She published 80 papers on major international AI and ML journals and conferences. Her paper on Learning to Rank and Neural Search ...
Dr. Guyue Zhou is currently an associate professor at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, leading AIR DISCOVER Lab. He also now serves as an academic consultant for RoboMaster University Championship and an associate editor for IET Smart Cities. Dr. Zhou earned his Ph.D. at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2014 under the supervision of Pro...
Yang Liu is an Associate Researcher and Associate Professor at Institute forAI Industry Research, Tsinghua University. She graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D in chemical and biological engineering. Before joining Tsinghua, She was a Principal Researcher and Research Team Lead at WeBank. She also previously wor...
Peng Li is a Research Associate Professor at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University. He received his B.S. degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University in 2009 and his Ph.D. in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University in 2015. Before joining Tsinghua, he was a principal researcher and team leader at WeChat AI, Tencent. He also previous...
Hao Zhou Research Associate Professor at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University. His research interest is developing machine learning models to better understand/generate discrete symbols including text, small molecules and proteins. Previously, he was a Research Scientist/Manager at ByteDance AI Lab. He has published over 60 papers in top conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, ...
MA Jianzhu is currently an Associate Researcher/Associate Professor at the Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University, doctoral supervisor, and is selected for Overseas Excellent Young Scientists. Prof. MA received his PhD from the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago in 2016 and worked as a project scientist at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Dieg. He wa...
Dr. Xianyuan Zhan is a research assistant professor at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University. Before joining AIR, Dr. Zhan was a data scientist at JD Technology and also a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Dr. Zhan previously led the research and development of AI-driven industrial system optimization products at JD Technology. He has published more than ...
Dr. Weizhi Ma is a research assistant professor at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University. Before joining AIR, he got his B.E. and Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, and was working as a postdoctoral research fellow at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on intelligence information acquisition, Personalized Re...
Dr. Yuanchun Li is an assistant researcher at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University. Before joining AIR, he got his Ph.D. and B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University, and was a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests include intelligent software, reliable artificial intelligence, and ubiquitous computing. His research has been pub...
Dr. Yan Wang is a research assistant professor at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University. His research interests include data compression powered by AI, perception in intelligent transportation and neural network compression. Before joining AIR, he was a senior researcher and team leader at SenseTime, where he and his team focus on research and product development in ...
Dr. Jiangtao Gong is currently an Assistant professor at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University. She used to be a senior researcher at the Technology Strategy and Innovation Platform of Lenovo Research. She is responsible for the R&D related to human-computer interaction, experience design and human factors in intelligent systems. Her Ph.D. was superwised under Professor ...
Hao Zhao got his Ph.D. and bachelor degrees from the Electronic Engineering department of Tsinghua University. He was a research scientist at Intel Labs China. He was a joint postdoc affiliated to Peking University. His research focuses on geometric and cognitive scene understanding and its applications in robotics. He has published about 30 top-tier papers on computer vision and robotics venue...
Dr. Yilun Chen is the Chief Expert of AI Robotics at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University, the Director of AIR Innovation Center and the Executive Director of Wuxi AIR Innovation Center. He obtained Ph.D. from Department of EECS, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, and bachelor and master degrees from Depart of EE, Tsinghua University. He has more than 30 publications w...
Dr Dacheng Tao is the Inaugural Director of the JD Explore Academy and a Vice President of JD.com. He is also an advisor of the digital science institute in the University of Sydney. He mainly applies statistics and mathematics to artificial intelligence and data science, and his research is detailed in one monograph and over 200 publications in prestigious journals and proceedings at leading c...
Dr. HongJiang Zhang, is the Chairman of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (a non-profit research institution). In 2022, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his technical contributions and leadership in the area of multimedia computing.He served as CEO of Kingsoft, managing director of Microsoft Advanced Technology Center (ATC) and chief technology officer (CTO) of...
Dr. Jian Peng is currently Distinguished Visiting Scholar of AIR. He was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Illinois, Jian was a postdoc at CSAIL at MIT and a visiting scientist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago in 2...
Yiming Rong is a distinguished visiting professor at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He was the chiar professor and founding chair of Mechanical and Energy Engineering Department at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen, China. Dr. Rong also worked as a faculty member with Tsinghua University, Worcester Polytechnic Ins...
A world-class computational biologist who initiated AI protein structure predictionFounder of MoleculeMind Inc.Tenured Full Professor of Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (affiliate of University of Chicago)Endowed Chair Professor of Tsinghua UniversityProfessor Xu's research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in computational biology. He has developed the first...
Dr. Ye Ouyang, IEEE Fellow, is a nationally recognized high-level talent, a top-tier talent in Beijing, and a leading talent in Guangzhou.Dr. Ye Ouyang serves as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at AsiaInfo Technologies (HKG: 1675), a global leading provider of telecom software and services. He is primarily responsible for setting the direction of technology and product leader...
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