Brief Bio:

Professor Steven Hoi is currently the Vice President of Alibaba Group. Prior to joining Alibaba, he founded the HyperGAI, one of the multimodal foundation models startups in Asia. Previously, Prof. Steven Hoi was the founding Managing Director of Salesforce Research Asia & VP of Salesforce AI Research at Salesforce, who had overseen Salesforce's AI research and development activities in APAC.  He is also the Professor of Computer Science (on leave) at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University. Formerly, he was a tenured Associate Professor of School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, in 2002, and both his Master and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in 2004 and 2006, respectively.