Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University is a research institute where multiple AI researchers who later moved into industry have held faculty positions. Wu Yi served as an assistant professor there after returning from a year and a half at OpenAI, where he had worked on the hide-and-seek reinforcement learning project that demonstrated emergent agent collaboration and strategy . Yuan Yang, also an assistant professor at the institute, hosted an AI session at the WAVES conference in 2023 where he drew a parallel between large language models and traditional Chinese medicine as two "black boxes" . Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, previously held an assistant professor position at the institute as well before departing for entrepreneurship . The institute appears in elsewhere's corpus primarily through the career trajectories of these researchers rather than through direct institutional coverage.