Wei Xu

Wei is a researcher and pioneer in general artificial intelligence. He was named one of the 20 leading technologists driving China’s AI revolution by Forbes. Wei has more than 20 years’ research experience in AI. In the late 90s, he lead the Communicator Dialog System at Carnegie Mellon University and published the first paper on neural network (i.e. deep learning) for language models in 2000. He was a Distinguished Scientist at Baidu Research, a scientist of Facebook, and a researcher at NEC Laboratories USA. He started and lead the open source deep learning framework PaddlePaddle. He also has developed deep learning visual understanding technologies, and deployed them to the surveillance systems of many US airports around 2005.