Weifeng Zhang

Weifeng Zhang is currently serving as Corporate VP and Head of Labs at Lenovo Research, overseeing both the Intelligent Computing Infrastructure Lab and the Wireless Research Lab since March 2024. Additionally, Weifeng Zhang holds positions as a member of the Future Technology Symposium Program Committee and Chair of the AI Co-Design workgroup with the Open Compute Project Foundation. Previous experience includes serving as Chief Architect and VP of Software at Lightelligence, focusing on optical computing architecture; Board Member at MLCommons, where responsibilities involved AI/ML performance benchmarking; and as Sr. Director and Chief Scientist of Heterogeneous Computing at Alibaba Group, developing scalable computing infrastructure for machine learning and HPC. Weifeng Zhang's early career includes significant roles at Qualcomm, ARM, and Microsoft, along with a visiting professor position at UC San Diego. Weifeng Zhang earned a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Wuhan University.