Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中科院计算所) is a Beijing-based research institute that has served as a training ground for prominent figures in China's AI and semiconductor industries. As elsewhere's corpus describes it, the institute produced Du Dalong, co-founder and CTO of PhiGent Robotics, who was among the first ten employees at Horizon Robotics and previously an architect at Baidu's deep-learning institute . Li Yan, founder of Xiaobai and a core architect of Kuaishou's AI system, also studied there after completing his undergraduate degree at Huazhong University of Science and Technology . More recently, the institute has been cited as an educational background for technical leaders at AI startups including one where the engineering lead is described as an ICT master's graduate later poached from Tencent . In chip design, Suaimiao Technology's core scientists include alumni of the institute, with founder Wang Fuquan having conducted postdoctoral research there in computer architecture under Hu Weiwu, chief scientist of the Loongson CPU .