Summary
Quanming Yao is an associate professor and Ph.D. advisor at Tsinghua University who builds and leads high-impact AI research teams, having grown a 27-member lab and advanced from assistant to associate professor in three years. With a Ph.D. from HKUST and 11 years in the field, he combines academic rigor with industry impact as a former senior scientist who founded 4Paradigm’s core ML team and helped drive technologies tied to its HK$2.5 billion IPO. His work spans automated machine learning, optimization, and scalable learning systems, reflected in 110+ publications, 13,000+ citations, and an h-index of 56 since 2018, including numerous NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR and Nature Series papers. Known for mentoring future AI leaders, he oversees lab strategy, funding, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and maintains an active research presence accessible via his lab homepage.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.E, Electronics and Information Engineering, A, B.E, Electronics and Information Engineering, A at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
English, Chinese