Connections

People building the future of AI I follow

🤖 LLM & Agent

• Mouxiang Chen - Researcher at Qwen
• Jiale Cheng - Ph.D. student at THU
• Zerui Cheng - Ph.D. student at Princeton
• Sunhao Dai - Researcher at Ant Group
• Guanting Dong - Ph.D. student at RUC
• Yiming Dong - Researcher at Qwen
• Weihua Du - Ph.D. student at CMU
• Yuxian Gu - Researcher at DeepSeek
• Qianyue Hao - Ph.D. student at THU
• Bingxiang He - Ph.D. student at THU
• Feng Hong - Researcher at Qwen Business Unit
• Jinyi Hu - Researcher at DeepSeek
• Binghui Li - Ph.D. student at PKU
• Hao Li - Researcher at DeepSeek
• Hao Li - Researcher at Qwen
• Kuan Li - Founder at UniPat AI
• Nian Li - Researcher at Tencent
• Xiaonan Li - Researcher at Apple
• Xiaoxi Li - Ph.D. student at RUC
• Weiwen Liu - Associate Professor at SJTU
• Yang Liu - Researcher at JD Retail
• Yong Liu - Researcher at ByteDance
• Zeyang Liu - Assistant Professor at XJTU
• Junyu Luo - Researcher at Kimi
• Xinyin Ma - Researcher at Hunyuan
• Kelong Mao - Researcher at JD Retail
• Zihan Qiu - Researcher at Qwen
• Qibing Ren - Assistant Professor at SJTU
• Jingzhe Shi - Incoming Ph.D. student at Princeton
• Yueqi Song - Ph.D. student at CMU
• Yehui Tang - Head of AI Model at Samsung
• Shangqing Tu - Ph.D. student at THU
• Hongru Wang - Postdoc at Edinburgh
• Shenzhi Wang - Ph.D. student at THU
• Zixuan Wang - Ph.D. student at Princeton
• Yuhan Wu - Researcher at DeepSeek
• Heming Xia - Ph.D. student at PolyU
• Yixuan Xu - Ph.D. student at CMU
• Yuzi Yan - Researcher at Qwen
• Yiyuan Yang - Ph.D. student at Oxford
• Tianzhu Ye - Researcher at MSRA
• Shi Yu - Researcher at MiniCPM
• Weichen Yu - Ph.D. student at CMU
• Jingyang Yuan - Researcher at DeepSeek
• Xuanming Zhang - Researcher at Qwen
• Yakun Zhang - Associate Professor at HIT
• Yichi Zhang - Ph.D. student at THU
• Yudong Zhang - Researcher at Baidu
• Zheng Zhao - Ph.D. student at Edinburgh

🎨 Multi-modal AI

• Qinyuan Cheng - CTO at mosi.ai
• Nan Duan - Deputy Director at JD Future Academy
• Junlin Han - Researcher at FAIR
• Ziqi Huang - Ph.D. student at NTU
• Chaoya Jiang - Professor at SDU
• Yang Jiao - Researcher at Longcat
• Yeying Jin - Researcher at Tencent
• Wuyang Li - Researcher at Ant Group
• Yunxin Li - Associate Professor at HIT
• Yong Liu - Researcher at JD Retail
• Yiwei Ma - Researcher at Dots studio
• Zanlin Ni - Ph.D. student at THU
• Yifan Pu - Researcher
• Yu Shang - Researcher at Tongyi Lab
• Hao Shao - Researcher at Seed
• Chenyang Si - Associate Professor at NJU
• Lichen Sun - Ph.D. student at UMass
• Yake Wei - Incoming Lecturer at RUC
• Chengyue Wu - Ph.D. student at HKU
• Jialong Wu - Co-founder and CRO at MirroS
• Xiaoyang Wu - Ph.D. student at HKU
• Dinghao Xi - Assistant Professor at SUFE
• Zhuofan Xia - Researcher at JD Retail
• Jiazheng Xu - Ph.D. student at THU
• Zeyue Xue - Researcher at JD Future Academy
• Chongjie Ye - Researcher at World Labs
• Ran Yi - Associate Professor at SJTU
• Tan Yue - Associate Researcher at PKU
• Jiasheng Zhang - Founder and CEO at Philo AI
• Yifan Zhang - Ph.D. student at CASIA
• Yifei Zhang - Professor at NWPU
• Zhuoyang Zhao - Ph.D. student at MIT
• Aojun Zhou - Tech Leader at Huawei Foundation Model Department

🔧 AI Infrastructure

• Dongqi Cai - Assistant Professor at NJU
• Jingwei Cai - Researcher at Seed
• Mengzhao Chen - Ph.D. student at HKU
• Cong Li - Ph.D. student at PKU
• Luyao Ren - Head of Infra at NEO Lab
• Hengrui Wang - Researcher at DeepSeek
• Tuowei Wang - Co-Founder and CEO at OmniMind
• Lixue Xia - Co-founder and CEO at Infinite AI
• Weikai Xu - Postdoctoral Researcher at HKUST
• Peiqi Yin - Incoming Research Scientist at NVIDIA
• Wentao Zhang - Assistant Professor at PKU

AI for Decisions

• Longbo Huang - Professor at THU
• Yuqi Pan - Ph.D. student at Harvard

🔬 AI for Science

• Rui Jiao - Researcher at Anew Labs
• Bang Liu - Associate Professor at Mila
• Yuyan Ni - Researcher at ByteDance
• Xin Xin - Ph.D. student at THU
• Hongteng Xu - Associate Professor at RUC
• Nan Xu - CEO at ScienceOne AI
• Zizhao Zhang - Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell

🤖 Embodied AI

• Sunli Chen - Ph.D. student at UMass
• Sijie Cheng - Ph.D. student at THU (also Head of AI at RayNeo)
• Yanjiang Guo - Ph.D. student at THU
• Songming Liu - Founder and CEO at LiberAI
• Yiran Qin - Director of Data and Algorithm at NeoteAI
• Jingbo Wang - Research Scientist and Team Lead at Shanghai AI Lab
• Jiazhi Yang - Ph.D. student at CUHK
• Chao Yu - Assistant Professor at THU (also Chief Scientist at Striding AI)
• Wanpeng Zhang - Partner and Head of Post-Training at BeingBeyond

🧩 AI Chips

• Haoyi Zhang - Ph.D. student at PKU

Theoretical CS / AI Theory

• Longhui Yin - Ph.D. student at THU

Listed in alphabetical order by family name.

Last updated: October 2026