About me

Senior Director & Head of AMAP-ML, Alibaba Group

I am a Senior Director at Alibaba (AMAP), leading a 100+ member team working on multimodal large models, generative AI, and intelligent navigation. I was selected as one of the Top 100 AI Scholars by AMiner (2023) and have published 110+ papers with 14,000+ citations. Previously, I led AI teams at Meituan (2020-2024) and Xiaomi (2017-2020). I hold an M.S. from Tsinghua University and a B.S. from Southeast University, both in Electrical Engineering.

We are always looking for talented interns/full-time researchers. Please drop me an email if interested.


Highlights

Research & Innovation

  • 60+ top conference papers (CVPR/ICCV/ECCV/NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR/AAAI/ACL/EMNLP), with 11 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

Multimodal Large Models | Generative Models | Reinforcement Learning | Foundation Model Architecture

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