NVIDIA, the global GPU giant, recently announced that two outstanding Chinese artificial intelligence experts, Banghua Zhu and Jiantao Jiao, have officially joined. Nvidia founder and CEO Huang Renxun personally confirmed the news, indicating that the company will usher in a stronger R&D power in the field of AI.
Among them, Zhu Banghua will serve as the chief research scientist of Nvidia. Although Jiao Jiantao’s specific position has not been officially announced, his reputation in the academic community and the degree of fit in the research field have made his participation attract much attention from the industry. Both Chinese scholars have educational backgrounds and rich research experience from top universities, and their arrival will undoubtedly inject new vitality into Nvidia’s AI strategy.
Let’s look at Zhu Banghua, who is currently an assistant professor of electronics and computer engineering at the University of Washington, focusing on research in related fields. He has an outstanding academic career experience, graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, and then received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to academic research, Zhu Banghua also interned at Google and Microsoft, accumulating valuable industrial experience. This allows him not only to have a deep theoretical foundation, but also to apply theory to practice.
Jiao Jiantao is also a leader in the academic world. He is a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research directions cover many popular fields such as generative AI, basic models, privacy and security in machine learning. Similar to Zhu Banghua, Jiao Jiantao also graduated from Tsinghua University and later obtained a doctorate from Stanford University. Jiao Jiantao’s research results are highly recognized in the academic community, and his joining will help Nvidia make breakthrough progress in many frontier AI fields.
What is even more striking is that two scholars, Zhu Banghua and Jiao Jiantao, were classmates at Tsinghua University during their undergraduate studies. Now, they will join hands once again to work together for Nvidia. It is understood that Zhu Banghua will join Nvidia’s Star Nemotron team to focus on application research of enterprise AI Agent. This means that Nvidia is actively deploying the enterprise-level AI solution market, and Zhu Banghua’s joining will accelerate this process. The Star Nemotron team focuses on using reasoning and multimodal basic models to build enterprise AI Agents. It is one of Nvidia’s important layouts in the AI field, aiming to provide enterprises with smarter and more efficient AI solutions.
From the industry perspective, Nvidia successfully recruited two top Chinese AI experts this time, which not only improved its talent reserves in the AI field, but also reflected the current fierce competition for AI talents in the technology industry. Especially in Silicon Valley, major technology companies are actively competing for top talents, hoping to improve their technical strength and innovation capabilities through the introduction of talents. As an industry leader, Nvidia’s talent strategic layout will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the development direction of the entire AI industry. This further proves that Chinese scientists are increasingly influential in the field of artificial intelligence and are contributing important strength to global scientific and technological innovation.
