Zhou Ming is the Founder of Langboat Technology and former Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. He is a world-renowned NLP expert, with around 100 publications in ACL conferences and an H-index of 110. He serves as Vice Chair of the China Computer Federation (CCF) and has previously held positions as President of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) and Deputy Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia. Zhou earned his Ph.D. from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1991 and subsequently taught at Tsinghua University. In 1999, he joined Microsoft Research Asia, where he led NLP research for many years. In 2021, he founded Langboat Technology, focusing on lightweight foundation models and next-generation NLP products. His startup was awarded the top prize at the 2021 Beijing HICOOL Entrepreneurship Competition. He is an ACL Fellow, CCF Fellow, and CAI Fellow, and serves as a doctoral advisor at five universities.

The primary research areas focus on foundation models, machine learning, and other artificial intelligence technologies, with a commitment to technological innovation and real-world applications in these fields. Academically, he/she has published over 100 papers at top-tier AI conferences, holds an H-index of 52, and has received three international Best Paper Awards as well as 41 granted U.S. patents. In the fields of cloud computing and big data, as a member of the early core technical team, he/she participated in the development of Feitian, the only domestically self-developed cloud computing operating system, laying the foundation for its large-scale commercial deployment. As one of the founding members of AI initiatives at Alibaba and Ant Group, he/she played a key role in leading and building multiple large-scale AI projects, including personalized recommendation systems for the Double 11 shopping festival, the AI platform PAI, the graph learning system AGL, AI-driven risk control systems, and the intelligent transformation of Alipay. Under his/her leadership, the team ranked first in four international algorithm competitions and received numerous prestigious awards, including the First Prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, the Grand Prize of Scientific and Technological Research Achievements from Shaanxi Higher Education Institutions, the CCF Science and Technology Progress First Prize, the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress First Prize, the China Institute of Electronics Science and Technology Progress First Prize, and the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress First Prize, significantly strengthening core technological competitiveness.