Nicholas Jing Yuan

Dr. Nicholas (Jing) Yuan is President of Haier Global AI Research Institute and a Vice President at Haier. He is also an Adjunct Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He focuses on frontier AI research and technological innovation, leading global teams to achieve breakthroughs in areas such as home intelligence and physical AI, enable innovation across Haier Group’s diverse businesses, and drive the Group’s AI-native transformation.

Previously, he was a Partner at Microsoft and Technical Advisor to the Corporate Vice President (CVP), focusing on strategy, long-range technology planning, and technical and product innovation. He also served as Vice President of AI, Chief Scientist, and Director of the Language & Speech Innovation Lab at Huawei Cloud, overseeing the research and development of AI technologies and products and their commercialization across sectors including smart cities, healthcare, manufacturing, finance, and energy. Before joining Huawei, he was a Senior Applied Scientist Lead/Manager and Deputy General Manager of the AI Creation Business Team at Microsoft. He led the development and application of Bing’s Asia-Pacific knowledge graph, as well as AI creation technologies and AIGC products for Microsoft Xiaoice. Earlier, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China, where his doctoral advisor was Academician Guoliang Chen.

Nicholas has authored more than 100 papers published in or accepted by conferences and journals including KDD, NeurIPS, ACL, AAAI, WWW, ICDE, UbiComp, TKDE, and TOIS. His research has received Best Paper or Best Student Paper Awards at KDD, ICDM, and CVPR, Test-of-Time Awards at KDD and MDM, and a 10-Year Impact Honorable Mention at SIGSPATIAL. He also received the First-class Prize of the Natural Science Award from China’s Ministry of Education and regularly serves on conference program committees and as a journal reviewer in AI and data mining. Nicholas is a Fellow of the IEEE.

袁晶博士现任海尔全球AI研究院院长、海尔智家副总裁。他同时担任香港科技大学客座教授。他致力于 AI 前沿研究与技术创新，并带领全球团队推动家庭智能、物理 AI 等领域的关键技术突破，赋能海尔集团的多元业务，推动集团的 AI Native 转型。

此前，他曾任微软全球合伙人、全球资深副总裁技术顾问，专注于战略发展、长期技术规划与技术及产品创新。他还曾担任华为云人工智能领域副总裁、语音语义实验室主任及首席科学家，负责人工智能技术与产品的研发及其在城市、医疗、工业、金融和能源等行业的商业化落地。加入华为前，他曾任微软资深科学家主管及人工智能创造事业部副总经理，负责 Bing 亚太区知识图谱的构建与应用，并领导微软小冰人工智能创作技术及 AIGC 产品的研发。更早之前，他是微软亚洲研究院研究员。他拥有中国科学技术大学数学学士及计算机科学博士学位，师从陈国良院士。

袁晶博士已发表或获录用的论文达 100 余篇，涉及 KDD、NeurIPS、ACL、AAAI、WWW、ICDE、UbiComp、TKDE 和 TOIS 等会议与期刊。他的研究获得 KDD、ICDM 和 CVPR 最佳论文或最佳学生论文奖，以及 KDD、MDM 时间检验奖和 SIGSPATIAL 十年影响力论文荣誉奖。他还曾获国家教育部自然科学一等奖，并长期参与人工智能与数据挖掘领域的国际会议和期刊学术服务。袁晶博士是国际电气与电子工程师学会会士（IEEE Fellow）。