Dr Jingren Zhou

Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President, Alibaba Group

Dr Jingren Zhou is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President at Alibaba, where he founded and led the development of Alibaba's flagship AI foundation models, including the Qwen and Wan model series. Today, Qwen is recognised as one of the world's leading large language models and among the most widely adopted open-source AI models globally.

Previously, Dr Zhou served as Chief Technology Officer at Alibaba Cloud, where he drove technology innovation and product development across a broad portfolio of cloud computing services. He also played a key role in building advanced AI technologies and infrastructure for personalized search, product recommendation, and advertising on Alibaba's e-commerce platforms. Before joining Alibaba, he was a veteran at Microsoft, focusing on big data and database research and development.

Dr Zhou’s research interests include cloud computing, distributed systems, databases, and large-scale machine learning. He has served as PC co-chair and core committee member for many academic conferences and technical forums. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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