Yichuan Hu

CTO of Laiye Technology

Co-founder and CTO of Laiya Technologies, Hu leads the team in continuous technology and product innovation in the direction of artificial intelligence and automation, and Laiya Technologies' Robotic Process Automation product and Enterprise Conversational AI Platform have been recognized in Gartner's Magic Quadrant respectively. Prior to co-founding Laiya, Yichuan Hu co-founded "What to Watch Tonight", a personalized video recommendation product, which was acquired by Baidu, where he worked as a senior architect. Yichuan Hu received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Tsinghua University, and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. He has published more than 20 papers and holds more than 200 patents and patent applications. Yichuan Hu is a member of the Technology Frontier Committee of the China Computer Federation and a visiting professor at the School of Artificial Intelligence at Wuhan University of Engineering.