Chinese AI and robotics firms appoint millennial and Gen Z rising stars as chief scientists
Young talent drive AI innovation at Chinese tech firms, focusing on fundamental research and strategic planning for future technologies
Chinese tech companies from Tencent Holdings to AgiBot have named millennials and even Gen Z talent as chief scientists to lead cutting-edge research into artificial intelligence and robotics.
A graduate of Princeton University and Tsinghua University, Yao was a core contributor to OpenAI’s first AI agents, Operator and Deep Research. In January, the first paper co-authored by him after joining the Chinese company was published, arguing that “context learning” should be placed at the centre of future model design to optimise AI models.
Besides Yao, Tencent retains renowned computer vision expert Zhang Zhengyou as chief scientist, who joined in 2018 after 20 years at Google. In 2013, he received the Helmholtz Prize, an award given biannually at the International Conference on Computer Vision, for the Zhang’s Camera Calibration Method, a technique named after him which improved 3D computer vision.