Tiejun Huang

Tiejun Huang is a professor at Peking University's Department of Computer Science and a leading figure in China's AI research ecosystem, best known as the founding president and later chairman of the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI, 智源研究院). He was appointed BAAI's first president in 2018 when the institute launched , and by 2025 had become its chairman . Under his leadership, BAAI released the "Wudao" large model series in 2021, which he described as anticipating that large models would become "the infrastructure of the intelligent era" . He has also been characterized as steering BAAI toward a "youth-led" talent model that earned it the nickname "the Whampoa Military Academy of China's large models" . In industry settings, he has appeared as a speaker on intelligent agents and their applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and virtual entertainment .

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