They are affecting the AI ​​process

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Today is March 8th. I wish all female compatriots a happy holiday!

At present, artificial intelligence is the field that attracts the most attention in the global technology circle, if not the only one.

In the decades since the birth of the field of artificial intelligence, female scientists, as an important force, have been driving the industry forward.

From basic algorithm research to industry implementation, they have brought many major breakthroughs and achievements with their outstanding abilities and firm determination.

On the occasion of this holiday, Qubit takes stock of the top ten Chinese female scientists worth paying attention to in the field of AI. Through their achievements and experiences, let’s experience the “her power” in the AI ​​industry!

Li Feifei

When it comes to "AI goddess", the first name that comes to many people's minds is probably Li Feifei.

She became a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford at the age of 33, became an academician of the National Academy of Engineering at the age of 44, and is currently the director of the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI).

She is an important leader in the field of computer vision. ImageNet, which she founded, has become a benchmark achievement in promoting the advancement of computer vision recognition.

Her experience is often talked about: she was born in Beijing, grew up in Chengdu, went to the United States to study, received tenure at Stanford, and served as the vice president of Google, the chief scientist of Google Cloud AI...

In the latest trend of large models, Li Feifei's team focuses on embodied intelligence. By connecting large models to robots, complex instructions can be transformed into specific action plans without additional data and training, opening up an important direction in the new wave.

Su Zifeng

AI computing power has never attracted more attention than the trend of large models at any moment.

AMD CEO Su Zifeng, known as "Su Ma", is an outstanding female representative in the computing industry.

Su Zifeng was born in Tainan City, Taiwan Province and immigrated to the United States when she was 3 years old. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She worked in R&D at Texas Instruments and IBM, and later became the head and founder of IBM's emerging products department. In 2007, she joined Freescale Semiconductor and served as CTO.

In 2014, Su Ma officially joined AMD and played a key role in promoting the company's development in the personal terminal market. Under her leadership, AMD launched a series of influential products, such as Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics card series; she led AMD to launch the Zen microarchitecture, shaking Intel's monopoly on CPUs.

Since the trend of large models, AMD has actively responded to the trend and released the Instinct MI300X, a dedicated card for large models. At the same time, AMD's stock price continues to hit record highs, with its market value crossing the 300 billion mark.

Wang Rui

In 2021, Intel China will welcome a female successor-Wang Rui.

She serves as Intel's senior vice president and chairman of Intel China.

Wang Rui has been majoring in electronic engineering during his schooling. He graduated from South China University of Technology with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Columbia University.

Intel has been deeply involved in China for 36 years, and Wang Rui has accumulated nearly 30 years of working experience in Intel.

During this period, she served as vice president of Intel's Platform Engineering Division and general manager of the Converged Signal IP Solutions Division, leading the development of most of Intel's analog-to-digital converged signal IP products.

He also served as the general manager of Intel's global accounts for Huawei, responsible for developing the cooperative relationship between Intel and Huawei.

She is on Forbes' "China's Women in Technology List" and she is also on Fortune magazine's list of China's most influential business women.

Guo Wenjing&Chenlin Meng

In the big model trend, there are also many new female figures who have stepped into the spotlight.

For example, PIKA, a start-up that has attracted much attention in the field of video generation, is even more talked about in the industry because of the background of its two female founders.

Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng are currently pursuing Ph.D. degrees at Stanford.

Guo Wenjing founded Pika in April 2023, and then Chenlin Meng joined as Lianchuang. The two collaborated to develop this text generation video model.

Judging from their academic experience, they respectively focus on AI research in the two directions of NLP and computer vision, and both have academic experience in generative AI.

Co-founder and CEO Guo Wenjing is a Ph.D. student in the Stanford University AI Laboratory (NLP & Graphics). Her LinkedIn page shows that she is on leave.

She was born in the United States and grew up in Hangzhou. She attended Hangzhou Foreign Language School in junior high school. She was exposed to programming since she was a child. She won an IOI silver medal. She officially studied abroad as an undergraduate and was admitted to Harvard University in advance.

Before studying for his PhD at Stanford University, Guo Wenjing obtained a master's degree in computer science and an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Harvard University.

During her undergraduate studies, she took a gap year and worked full-time as a research engineer at Facebook AI Research for a period of time.

During her tenure, she participated in research on using Transformer to analyze 250 million protein sequences. This paper currently has more than 1,200 citations, including AlphaFold2, which later became popular.

Chenlin Meng is also a PhD candidate in computer science at Stanford.

Prior to that, she earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Stanford University in 2020.

Compared with Guo Wenjing's research experience in the field of NLP, she has richer academic experience in computer vision and 3D vision. The denoising diffusion implicit model (DDIM) paper she participated in has now received more than 1,700 citations in a single article. In addition, she has published many generative AI-related research papers at top conferences such as ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR, and ICML, and many of them have been selected into Oral.

Chen Danqi

In the academic field of AI, Chen Danqi, the master of Yao Class at Tsinghua University, is one of the most watched young Chinese scholars in recent years.

She has won the Sloan Prize, known as the "Nobel Prize Trend Vane", is an alumnus of Tsinghua Yao Class in 2008, and is also a legendary female player in the informatics competition circle - the CDQ divide and conquer algorithm is named after her . In 2008, she won an IOI gold medal on behalf of the Chinese team.

Now, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. She established the NLP group from scratch and serves as co-leader. She is also a member of the AIML group.

Chen Danqi was born in Changsha, Hunan, and attended Changsha Yali Middle School in high school. Her family discovered that she was very sensitive to numbers when she was very young, and her speed in solving problems and her comprehensiveness in thinking about problems were beyond those of her peers. She started practicing for the Mathematical Olympiad in the third grade.

Perhaps influenced by his own experience, Chen Danqi has called on women more than once to participate in the construction of science, engineering and computer disciplines:

Don't deliberately emphasize that girls are not good at studying engineering or computers.
The GAP between men and women will become increasingly non-existent.

Wu Tian

In the big model trend, Baidu has always remained highly active.

Wu Tian is one of the key figures in Baidu’s artificial intelligence.

She is currently the vice president of Baidu Group, responsible for Baidu's artificial intelligence technology platform and ecosystem, covering natural language processing, knowledge graphs, computer vision, augmented reality, Feipiao deep learning platform, AI technology ecosystem, etc.

Wu Tian joined Baidu in 2006 and has led the team to achieve results in important directions of artificial intelligence such as machine learning, deep learning, data mining, and natural language processing. The Feipiao she is responsible for is China's first feature-rich industrial-level deep learning open source Open platform.

At the same time, Wu Tian also serves as deputy director of the National Engineering Research Center for Deep Learning Technology and Applications, and vice chairman of the China Artificial Intelligence Open Source Software Development Alliance.

Lin Yonghua

Among the female representatives in the field of large-scale models in China, Lin Yonghua , chief engineer of Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, is one of them.

She is the first female dean of IBM China Research Institute since its establishment. She has been working in the industry for more than 20 years. She is involved in cloud computing, system architecture, AI systems, and computer vision. She promoted artificial intelligence system innovation during her tenure at IBM.

Join Zhiyuan in 2022. Responsible for promoting the development of Zhiyuan AI platform, open source and industrial ecological construction.

At present, Zhiyuan has released a series of open source large models, including text and graphics representation model, EVA universal visual coding model, universal visual decoder Painter, etc.

Yang Hongxia

Yang Hongxia is the former leader of Alibaba's M6 large model. In March last year, it was revealed that she had joined Byte AI Lab and participated in the development of large language generation models.

She graduated from Nankai University and Duke University, where she studied under the famous statistician David Dunson. She has published nearly 100 top-level papers in international conferences and top journals in the field of artificial intelligence.

M6 is a very large-scale multi-modal pre-training model developed by Alibaba Damo Academy.

Yang Hongxia once led the M6 ​​large model to evolve from tens of billions to hundreds of billions, and then to trillions of parameters, and led the development of cognitive intelligence technology and the implementation of scenarios. In March 2021, the M6 ​​large model was released for the first time. By the end of 2021, when Alibaba Cloud released the latest progress of M6, its parameters had reached 10 trillion, making it the world's largest AI pre-training model at that time.

In early September 2022, Yang Hongxia resigned from Alibaba Damo Academy due to personal and family reasons.

Weng Lilian

OpenAI Chinese scientist Weng Lilian is one of the contributors to ChatGPT.

She is the person in charge of OpenAI's artificial intelligence application research. She joined OpenAI in 2018 and is mainly involved in pre-training, reinforcement learning & alignment, and model security in the GPT-4 project.

In OpenAI's newly formed security advisory team, she leads the security system team to solve problems such as reducing abuse of existing models such as ChatGPT.

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(The following generation is from ChatGPT)

When we focus on Chinese female scientists in the field of AI, we see countless wisdom, tenacity and innovation. They have climbed to the top in this highly technical field and added rich color to the world of science and technology.

It’s because of these extraordinary women that we see a more diverse and inclusive future in tech. On this special day, International Women’s Day, let us pay high respect to them and look forward to them continuing to write glorious chapters on the journey of AI innovation.

Their achievements not only set a shining example for Chinese women, but also injected strong vitality and inspiration into the entire technology industry. May these outstanding female scientists continue to shine in the starry sky of science and technology and become role models for more young people to follow.

In this lofty mission, they are not only leaders in science, but also pioneers in society.

Finally, besides them, who else would you nominate? Everyone is welcome to add.

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