人工智能工程院 - Sinovation Ventures

Dean of AI Institute

Mr. Yonggang Wang is the dean of Sinovation Ventures AI Institute. He is the co-founder of AInnovation, a spin-off from AI Institute, as well as the founder of DeeCamp, a students non-for-profit AI deep learning training camp. Previously, he served as staff software engineer in Google for over 10 years, the projects he had participated or been responsible for research and development include desktop search, Google Pinyin input method, product search, knowledge graph, Google Homepage Doodles, etc. He has a deep experience accumulation in knowledge graph, distributed systems, input method, HTML5 animation, game engine and other technical fields. Yonggang graduated from Peking University.

Chief Scientist

Dr. Ming Zhou is the Chief Scientist of Sinovation Ventures AI Institute. Dr. Zhou is a world leading AI scientist and a pioneer in Chinese NLP. Before joining Sinovation, Dr. Zhou was the Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Chair of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) China. He is vice president of China Computer Federation (CCF) and steering committee member of Chinese Information Processing Society of China. He is also a doctorial advisor in Harbin Institute of Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai University, Beihang University, University of Science and Technology of China.

Senior Vice President of AI Institue/ Dean of Greater Bay Area Research Center

Mr. Jeremy Chau is the Senior Vice President and Dean of Sinovation AI Institute Greater Bay Area Center. He leads the technology team focusing on AI infusion enabling new technologies for traditional businesses. He joined Google in the year 2000 as its 103rd employee at its small office in Silicon Valley. He was the first engineer of Google AdWords. He also developed various products during his 8-year career at Google: Gmail, Maps, China Music. He started doing angel investments in China in 2008 and one portfolio company lightinthebox.com was listed on NASDAQ in 2013. Other notable investments are Papaya Mobile, instreet.cn, the movie One Night Surprise. He started Jide.com in 2014 to develop an enterprise OS based on Android for PC equipment like laptops and desktops. He started Zeegle in 2018 to provide AI consulting services to enterprises and government in China. Jeremy received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Executive Dean of Nanjing Research Center

Dr. Ji Feng is the Deputy Dean of Nanjing Research Center. Dr. Feng is the recipient of 2020 CCF Best Dissertation Award. Currently he is in charge of empowering investment using AI technology. Dr. Ji Feng graduated from Nanjing University under the supervision of Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou, with a focus on developing novel deep learning models. His academic activities include the vice-chair of IEEE federated machine learning standard working group, member of China Computing Federation's Ethics Committee and PC member of top international AI conferences including NeurIPS-19/20, AAAI-18/19/20, ICML-19 etc.

Scientific Advisor

Dr. Zhang is a world leading expert in machine learning. He obtained BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University, and MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is a professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Previously Tong Zhang was a full professor at Rutgers University, and worked at IBM, Yahoo as research scientists, and Baidu as the founding Director of Big Data Lab. He was also the founding Director of Tencent AI Lab. Dr. Tong Zhang was an ASA fellow and IMS fellow, and has served as the chair or area-chair in major machine learning conferences such as NIPS, ICML, and COLT, and has served as associate editors in top machine learning journals such as PAMI, JMLR, and Machine Learning Journal.