Zhang Li
Vice President of Canaan Creative. Ms. Zhang Li obtained her Master of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University, with a CPA certificate. Ms. Zhang Li has worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and Guotai Junan Securities M&A Department. She has led several overseas listing projects and has served more than 10 A-share listed companies in the internet and service sectors. Since 2014, she has been the vice president and secretary of the board of Hangzhou Shunwang Technology, the leading Internet entertainment platform company in China, responsible for the company's strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions and investment. During her tenure, Ms. Zhang Li led the investment in the domestic outstanding film and television entertainment company Ciwen Media, mixed ownership of the first single China Telecom's love game base, Donews, iKuai wifi. In addition, she led the acquisition of the light casual game platform 91y, the world's largest game show Chinajoy and China’s leading security platform Guo Rui Xin An.
In 2018, Ms. Zhangl Li established Canaan Creative’s investment team and an international legal team, led the AI business from scratch, and promoted the company to further deepen the edge of AI.
Yichen Shen
Yichen Shen is a co-founder and CEO of Lightelligence. He received his PhD degree in Physics from MIT in 2016, where his research focused on nanophotonics and artificial intelligence. Through his PhD, Yichen has published more than 25 peer-reviewed journal papers and has filed 10 US patents, including first authored papers in Science, Nature Photonics, and ICML (the top machine learning conference). In 2017, Yichen received Forbes 30 under 30 Global and MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators under 35 (TR35) China.
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Dr. Shouyi Yin
Dr. Shouyi Yin received B.S, M.S. and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2000, 2002 and 2005 respectively. He has been with Imperial College London, London, U.K., as a Post doc during 2005-2007. He is currently with the Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Tsinghua University, as an Associate Professor. He is now the vice director of IME and leading the division of Computer-Aided Design. His current research interests include reconfigurable computing, neural network accelerator chip design, HLS, SoC and embedded system design. Dr. Yin has published one book, a handful of book chapters, and more than 100 journal and conference papers. He has been granted with 45 China patents with other 39 pending applications. He has led the research and implementation of reconfigurable neural network processor “Thinker”. He once won the first prize of National Technology &Invention Award.
Lingjie Xu
Lingjie Xu is a director of Alibaba Cloud and he is in charge of heterogeneous computing infrastructure, including GPUs and AI ASICs. His team is currently focusing on applied AI architecture and SW/HW interplay. On September 2018, he launched AI Matrix benchmark suite for deep learning. Before joining Alibaba, he held various senior management and architect roles in NVIDIA, AMD and Samsung.