Global GPU giant Nvidia 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 launch 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 academia and the appropriateness of research have made his involvement attract the attention of the industry. 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 take a look at Zhu Banghua, assistant professor of electronics and computer engineering at the University of Washington, focusing on research in related fields. He has outstanding academic career experience, graduated from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University, and then received his Ph.D. PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from Berkeley. In addition to academic research, Zhu Banghua also interns at Google and Microsoft, accumulating valuable industrial experience. This not only gives him a deep theoretical foundation, but also applies theory to practice.
jao jiantao is also a leader in academia. He is a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research instructions cover many popular areas 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 received her PhD from Stanford University. Jiao Jiantao’s research results are highly recognized in the academic community, and his participation will help Nvidia make breakthroughs in many border AI fields.
More strikingly, two scholars Zhu Banghua and Jiao Jiantao were classmates at Tsinghua University during their undergraduate studies. Now, they will join forces to work together for Nvidia again. It is understood that Zhu Banghua will join NVIDIA’s star Nemotron team, focusing on the application research of enterprise AI agents. This means that NVIDIA is actively deploying the enterprise-level AI solutions market, and the addition of Zhu Banghua will accelerate this process. The Star Nemotron team focuses on building enterprise AI agents using inference and multimodal basic models. It is one of NVIDIA’s important layouts in the field of AI, aiming to provide enterprises with smarter and more effective AI solutions.
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From an industry perspective, NVIDIA successfully recruited two top AI experts in China 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 by introducing 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 becoming increasingly influential in the field of artificial intelligence and contribute important strength to global scientific and technological innovation.
