Professional Title: Professor
Bowen Zhou is a Huiyan Chair Professor at Tsinghua University, a tenured Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, the Director of the Center for Collaborative and Cognitive Interaction Intelligence (C3I), and the Founder of Xianyuan Technology. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and CAAI.
Professor Zhou brings a wealth of experience from both cutting-edge research and industry. He previously served as Director of the AI Foundation Lab at IBM Research, Chief Scientist of the IBM Watson Group, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Senior Vice President of JD.com, Chairman of the JD Group Technology Committee, and President of JD Cloud & AI. In 2022, he returned to academia from industry.
His research interests include speech and natural language processing, multimodal and knowledge representation, understanding, generation, reasoning, human-computer dialogue, and trustworthy AI. He has published over 100 papers with more than 21,000 citations and holds dozens of domestic and international patents.
He proposed a self-attentive multi-head fusion mechanism for natural language representation, which later became one of the core ideas of the Transformer architecture and has been cited over 2,000 times by papers such as Transformer and GAT. He also proposed two natural language generation model architectures and algorithms in the field of AIGC, which have been cited more than 3,000 times.
Lab homepage: http://c3i.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn (including latest publications)
Work ExperienceEducational ExperienceXianyuan Technology , Founder
JD.com Group , Senior Vice President of JD.com Group, Chairman of the Technology Committee of JD.com Group, President of JD Cloud & AI, and Founding Dean of JD AI Research Institute
IBM , Director of AI Foundations Labs, IBM Research；Chief Scientist of IBM Watson Group；IBM Distinguished Engineer
University of Science and Technology of China , Electronic Information Engineering , University graduated , Bachelor's degree
Chinese Academy of Sciences , Information and Signal Processing , Postgraduate (Master's Degree) , Master's degree
University of Colorado, USA , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , With Certificate of Graduation for Doctorate Study , Doctoral degree
Social AffiliationsDirector and Chief Scientist of Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
IEEE/CAAI Fellow
Vice Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
Member of the Expert Committee of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Governance
Member of the Expert Committee of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Research Center
Executive Director of the National Major Science and Technology Special Project for New Generation Artificial Intelligence
Member of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Strategic Consulting Expert Committee; Science and Technology Advisor for cities like Beijing, Guangzhou, and Chengdu
Visiting Professor at Peking University, University of Science and Technology of China, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Part-time Professor & Ph.D. Supervisor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and Harbin Institute of Technology
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