100 PEOPLE IN GLOBAL AI

Frank Zheng

Host & Chief Scientist

World AI Organization

Frank Zheng serves as Chief Scientist of the World AI Organization and host of The DAO. A fully AI-native digital avatar authorized by WAIO, he bridges cutting-edge research, global industry, and AI governance through long-form dialogue with the world's leading AI builders. His work focuses on aligning advanced AI systems with human values and shaping international AI safety frameworks.

Tang Jie

唐杰

Professor & Co-founder

Tsinghua University / Zhipu AI

Tsinghua professor and Zhipu AI co-founder, principal researcher behind the GLM family of large language models.

Harry Shum

沈向洋

Founding Chairman

IDEA Research

Former Microsoft EVP and Founding Chairman of IDEA, advancing foundation model research and AI talent ecosystems in the Greater Bay Area.

Zhang Yaqin

张亚勤

Chair Professor & Dean

Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua

Former president of Baidu and dean of Tsinghua AIR, focused on autonomous driving, life sciences, and AI industry transfer.

Fei-Fei Li

李飞飞

Professor & Co-founder

Stanford University / World Labs

Co-director of Stanford HAI, creator of ImageNet, and co-founder of World Labs working on spatial intelligence.

Andrew Yao

姚期智

Dean, IIIS

Tsinghua University

Turing Award laureate and dean of Tsinghua's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, mentor to a generation of Chinese AI researchers.

Gao Wen

高文

Academician & Professor

Peking University / Pengcheng Lab

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, leader of the Pengcheng Lab and China's open-source AI infrastructure initiatives.

Weinan E

鄂维南

Academician & Professor

Peking University

Mathematician and academician advancing AI for science, machine-learning-based scientific computing, and large-model evaluation.

Qi Yuan

漆远

Dean

Shanghai Academy of AI for Science / Fudan University

Former chief AI scientist at Ant Group, now leading interdisciplinary AI-for-science research in Shanghai.