People

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• YYang ZhilinChinese AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded Moonshot AI in Beijing in 2023 and runs it as CEO; the company released the Kimi assistant and the open-weight Kimi K2 and K3 models.
• YYan JunjieYan Junjie is a co-founder and chief executive officer of the Chinese AI company MiniMax, which he led to a Hong Kong listing on 9 January 2026; he was previously an executive at SenseTime.
• YYann LeCunYann LeCun is a French computer scientist known for convolutional neural networks, which learn to recognise images directly from pixels. He co-authored the 1998 paper that introduced LeNet-5 and shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
• YYin QiYin Qi is a Chinese AI entrepreneur who co-founded the facial-recognition company Megvii with Tang Wenbin and Yang Mu after graduating from Tsinghua, and later became chairman of Qianli Technology, turning to smart automotive technology.
• YYoav ShohamYoav Shoham is an Israeli-American computer scientist, professor emeritus at Stanford and co-founder and chairman of AI21 Labs. He initiated the AI Index and has worked on AI, game theory and multi-agent systems.
• YYoshua BengioCanadian computer scientist whose work on sequence models, word embeddings and attention helped lay foundations for modern language models. He shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.
• YYu KaiYu Kai is chief executive and a co-founder of Horizon Robotics, the Chinese smart-driving supplier that listed in Hong Kong on 24 October 2024 under the code 9660.HK.
• ZZhang BoZhang Bo (born 1935) is a scholar in automatic control and artificial intelligence. He studied and taught at Tsinghua University and helped found the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems.
• ZZhang PengZhang Peng is chief executive officer of Zhipu AI (Z.ai). He led the company through its Hong Kong listing on 8 January 2026, described as the first by a major Chinese LLM company, and through the GLM-4.5 to GLM-5.3 model releases.
• ZZhang YaqinZhang Yaqin is an electrical engineer and technology executive who spent nearly 16 years at Microsoft, served as president of Baidu from 2014 to 2019, and joined Tsinghua University in 2019 as a chair professor of intelligent science.
• ZZhang YimingChinese technology entrepreneur who co-founded ByteDance in 2012 and led it as CEO until November 2021, when he handed the role to co-founder Liang Rubo and remained founder and chairman.
• ZZhiyuan LiuZhiyuan Liu is a tenured associate professor at Tsinghua University and co-founder and chief scientist of Beijing ModelBest, a company working to run capable large models on local devices.
• ZZhou ZhihuaZhou Zhihua is a Chinese computer scientist at Nanjing University who works on ensemble learning, weakly supervised learning and multi-label learning. He founded the LAMDA institute there, serves as a university vice president, and was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025.
• ZZhu SongchunZhu Songchun is a computer vision researcher who worked at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2002 and was named in 2020 to lead Peking University's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
• ZZiv AviramZiv Aviram is a co-founder of Mobileye, the company he helped build from its founding in 1999 through its 2014 New York Stock Exchange listing and its 2017 acquisition by Intel.