Nan Duan

Tech Fellow at StepFun

Dr. Nan Duan, Tech Fellow at StepFun, leads a team of researchers to build multimodal fundamental models centered on language and video. Previously, he was a Senior Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Natural Language Computing team at Microsoft Research Asia (2012-2024). Dr. Duan is an Adjunct Doctoral Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and Xi'an Jiaotong University, and an Adjunct Professor at Tianjin University. He focuses on natural language processing, code intelligence, multimodal base models, and intelligences.