Prof. Hongxia Yang, PhD from Duke University, has published over 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, and holds more than 50 patents in the USA and China. Previously, she worked as a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson research center, principal scientist at Yahoo!, an AI scientist and Director at Alibaba DAMO Academy, an adjunct professor at Zhejiang University’s Shanghai Advanced Research Institute and the Head of Large Language Models at ByteDance US.