Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (交叉信息研究院) at Tsinghua University is a research institute whose faculty and alumni have become a notable pipeline for China's AI and quantum computing startups. As elsewhere's corpus shows, several assistant professors from the institute have moved into founding roles: Yao Lin (姚麟) served as CEO of quantum computing startup Huayi Quantum (华翊量子) after being a postdoctoral researcher there , Xu Huazhe (许华哲) founded home robotics company Poko Robotics while holding an assistant professorship , and Wu Yi (吴翼) joined the faculty after a stint at OpenAI . The institute also counts Yue Zhi'an (月之暗面 founder Yang Zhilin) among its former faculty . Beyond entrepreneurship, its researchers appear in cross-disciplinary forums—assistant professor Yuan Yang once framed large models and traditional Chinese medicine as parallel "black boxes" at a Waves conference . The quantum side of the house connects to Tsinghua's Center for Quantum Information, whose director Duan Luming (段路明) also serves as chief scientist at Huayi Quantum .