Zejun

Zejun Ma is an AI Director at TikTok, where they lead the AI Innovation Center and are focused on hiring researchers and engineers in large language and multimodal models. Previously, Zejun served as AI Lab Director at ByteDance and held positions at Alibaba.com, including Director and Senior Expert responsible for voice search and intelligent dialogue systems. Their early experience includes working as a Speech Recognition Researcher at Samsung, where they developed advanced algorithms and real-time decoders for speech recognition. Zejun earned both a Master's degree and a PhD in Speech Recognition and Pattern Recognition from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.