Summary
Jia Xu is a technology leader and co-founder with over a decade of deep expertise in computer vision and deep learning, currently building generative AI products as Co-Founder & CTO of a stealth startup. As Head of Huya AI (GM) he founded and scaled a Shenzhen AI site, hiring 100+ researchers and delivering AI platforms and 50+ SDKs that process billions of multimedia items for hundreds of millions of users. His career bridges top-tier research and productization—principal researcher at Tencent AI Lab and senior research scientist at Intel Visual Computing Lab—with CVPR/ICCV publications and a PhD from University of Wisconsin–Madison. Known for shipping production-grade multimodal systems (CV, NLP, ASR, TTS) and large-scale engineering, he pairs academic rigor with operational leadership. An understated detail: he has led teams that turned state-of-the-art research (e.g., optical flow and low-light imaging) into deployable services used at industrial scale.
10 years of coding experience