Dr. Fei Huang is Chief Scientist and Senior Director of Language Technologies Lab, DAMO Academy. 

He led natural language processing (NLP) team to develop one of the first Chinese Large Language Models (LLM): PLUG and  AliceMind, which evolve into Tongyi Qianwen, Alibaba's ChatGPT system, and achieved results surpassing human performances for the first time  in tasks such as machine reading comprehension (MRC), visual question answering (VQA) and Chinese understanding (CLUE). He led teams building AliNLP,  the NLP service platform that supports dozens of BUs within the Alibaba Group with trillions of calls per day. His team also developed AI products to empower judicial, e-commerce, health, customs and other industry partners, resulting in tens of millions of revenue. Before joining DAMO Academy, he led machine translation effort at Facebook, was a senior research scientist at IBM Watson before obtaining  Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in Computer Sciences. He has published   60+ articles in top artificial intelligence conferences and journals, tens of patents in US and China, and served as PC Chair, Senior Area Chair, reviewers in numerous industrious and academic conferences. 

Email: feirhuang[at]gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

Alibaba   DAMO Academy                                                                                                                          2018-present

Chief Scientist and Senior Director of Language Technology Lab, DAMO Academy

"Make Language Local, Make Business Global"


Zhejiang University 2020-present 

Adjunct Full Professor in Computer Science


Meta (Facebook)                                                                                                                            2014-2018

Senior Tech Leader/Staff Research Scientist in Machine Translation, Applied Machine Learning and Places Data, Local

"Connect the world in everyone's language"


IBM T. J. Watson Research Center                                                                      2006-2014

Senior Research Staff Member in Statistical Machine Translation 

"Make  Watson multilingual"

EDUCATION

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY                                                                      

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE, SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 

Ph.D. in Language and Information Technologies

                                                                                

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY                                                                   

LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE, SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

M.S. in Language Technologies

                                                                                

CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES                                                                    

M.S. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System

                                                                     

TIANJIN UNIVERSITY                                                                                                     

B.E. (major) in Electrical Engineering and Automation with High Honors 

B.A. (minor) in English for Science and Technology 

Research and Publications

I have published 150+ articles in top artificial intelligence conferences and journals, tens of patents in US and China, and served as PC Chair, Senior Area Chair, reviewers in numerous industrious and academic conferences, with  H-index 50 (about 10K citations by 07/2024).

google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9r98PpoAAAAJ

PATENTS

Professional Services

Chairperson of Forum on Large Language Models,  CNCC 2022 

Senior Area Chair, Area Chair, PC Member, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, AAAI, IJCAI, NLPCC, 

Reviewer  TACL, TASLP, TALLIP