Xiaolong Li (pronounced as /shiao-long-lee/) 李小龙

Ph.D., CECS

Update: I am now with Tencent AI Lab&Hunyuan LLM group, in charge of the applied research and applications of LLM based Digital Human technologies into different Tencent businesses especially for IEG (Interactive Entertainment Group, or Tencent Games 游戏部门), CDG (Advertising), and CSIG (Tencent Cloud). (See our recent papers on ACL'2024 and NeurIPS'2024. More details to be updated). 

2021.10-2023.4 Previously working in Damo Acadamy of Alibaba Group and leading the Intelligent Innovation Center (IIC) which focused on incubation and commercialization of innovative AI technologies including Digital Human Beings and Intelligent Customer Services. AliMe(阿里小蜜)series of products (intelligent customer services) based on Alibaba Cloud was the leader of China's Conversational AI market since 2021 by IDC, Gartner and iResearch's reports. Intelligent Live Room on Taobao Live (淘宝直播 or 点淘) was a digital inferencer product which helped merchants save cost and improve conversion efficiency on Taobao Live platform. See media coverage below for more details about our innovations and visions for digital human beings. 

2020.3-2021.9 Previously working in AMap Business Group (AMap, or AutoNavi, GaoDe 高德), Alibaba Group, at Hangzhou&Beijing, China, also at Seattle, WA, USA, as VP of AMap and Chairman of Technical Committee of AMap (高德地图副总裁&高德地图技术委员会主席). Before joining AMap, I worked in AI Department of Ant Group for 4 years (2016.3-2020.3) as Director and then Senior Director of Engineering, and in iDST (the institute of Data Science and Technologies, the predecessor of the Damo Academy of Alibaba Group) for 1.5 years (2014.7-2016.3) as Senior Staff Engineer. Before joining Alibaba I worked in Microsoft at Seattle for 9 years  (2005-2014), at different teams including Incubation Group, MSR and Bing, and I was a RSDE Lead in Query Understanding team, Core Relevance Group of Bing Search. 

I hold 20+ US granted patents, 150+ granted or pending Chinese patents and have published 80+ papers on top AI journals/conferences.  

Email: Xiao-Long-Li@outlook.com

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