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Education

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2012
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, 2010

Work Experience

Alibaba Group - AMAP

Senior Director & Head of AMAP-ML | Mar 2024 - Present

Research Focus: Large Language Models, Multimodal Understanding, Generative AI, Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent Mobility

Research & Publications

• Led the team to publish numerous papers at top venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, EMNLP)
• 3 papers selected for PaperDigest’s Most Influential Paper List: FairNAS, Twins, CPVT

Team & Leadership

• Built and leading a research team focusing on multimodal learning and intelligent mobility
• Managed technical teams of 100+ members, with over 50% recruited from renowned AI labs

Meituan - Visual Intelligence Department

Senior Technical Manager | May 2020 - Mar 2024

Team Direction: Multi-modal Large Models, Large Language Model, Perception (2D+3D), Foundation Model, Self-supervised Pre-training, Model Compression, MLOps

Large Foundation Models (LLM and Multi-modal)

• Built general understanding (multi-modal) large model with open set understanding capabilities for Meituan scenarios
• Achieved industry-leading compression and efficient deployment of the company’s trillion-parameter LLM
• Trained and deployed LLM base model for embodied intelligence scenarios
• Reproduced Meta LLaMA 7B from scratch; developed 1B and 3B MobileVLM benchmarking Gemini Nano
• Created VisionLLaMA unifying vision and language architecture; Twins outperforming Swin with production deployment advantages

Team & Influence Building

• Built team from 0 to 1; recruited multiple Google PhD Fellowship recipients
• Open-sourced and maintained YOLOv6 detection library
• Contributed to National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 major project on AI fundamental models

Autonomous Driving & Drones

• Built 3D offline system for autonomous delivery vehicles, saving millions in annotation costs annually
• Improved online perception algorithms (3D obstacle detection, tracking) achieving industry-leading real-time capabilities
• Launched core perception modules on third and fourth generation drones

AI Business Support & MLOps

• Constructed vision code base and AutoML tools
• Model compression and deployment (end, edge, cloud) covering face recognition, OCR, security review, image understanding
• Saved millions in vision service costs annually

Xiaomi - Artificial Intelligence Department

Senior Technical Manager | Mar 2017 - May 2020

Team Direction: AutoML, Base Model Design, Machine Learning

• Initiated AutoML project and built the team from 0 to 1
• Implemented in scene recognition, segmentation, acoustic scene classification, recommendation
• Won 2nd place in Xiaomi’s first “Million Dollar Prize” (Automated Neural Network Design)

Beijing KingStar System Control Co., Ltd.

Deputy Director | Jun 2013 - Mar 2017

• Key contributor to “Complex Power Grid Autonomy - Collaborative Automatic Voltage Control” project
• Awarded 2018 National Science and Technology Progress First Prize (contributed 20 invention patents)

IBM Research China (CRL)

Research Scientist | Jul 2012 - May 2013

Professional Services

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

Awards & Honors

• Top 100 AI Scholars, AMiner, 2023
• National Science and Technology Progress First Prize, 2018
• 2nd Place, Xiaomi “Million Dollar Prize” (Automated Neural Network Design)
• 3 first-authored papers on PaperDigest’s Most Influential Paper List: FairNAS, Twins, CPVT