Senior Director & Head of AMAP-ML, Alibaba Group

I lead the Multimodal Learning team at Amap (Alibaba), focusing on large language models, multimodal understanding, generative AI, reinforcement learning, and intelligent mobility.

In 2023, I was selected as one of the Top 100 AI Scholars by AMiner. Prior to that, I served as a senior manager at Meituan (2020-2024) and Xiaomi (2017-2020). I earned my Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southeast University in 2010, and later my Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2012.

We are always looking for talented interns/full-time researchers with strong coding skills and research experience. Please drop me an email if interested.

Highlights

Research & Innovation

• 55+ top conference papers (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/AAAI/EMNLP), with 13 first-authored papers
• 3 first-authored papers selected for PaperDigest’s Most Influential Paper List: FairNAS, Twins, CPVT

Professional Services

• Senior Program Committee (SPC): AAAI, IJCAI
• Area Chair (AC): ICLR, NeurIPS

Research Directions

LLM Pre-training | Multimodal Large Models | Reinforcement Learning | Generative Models | Foundation Model Design | AutoML | Model Compression | Self-supervised Learning | 2D/3D Perception

Industry Impact

• Applied research delivering AI solutions for navigation, autonomous driving, and intelligent mobility

Leadership

• Managed technical teams of 100+ members
• Over 50% of team members recruited from renowned domestic and international AI labs
• Open-sourced industry-leading detection framework YOLOv6

Recognition

• Top 100 AI Scholars, AMiner 2023
• National Science and Technology Progress First Prize, 2018
• Multiple industry invited talks and top conference presentations

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