Dezhao Wang

Technical Expert at Alibaba's Taotian Group and Chief Architect of the MNN Team

Graduated with a Master's degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently serving as a Technical Expert at Alibaba's Taotian Group and the Chief Architect of the MNN team, he is responsible for the architecture design and performance optimization of the high-performance on-device AI inference engine MNN (12.5k stars) and its large model optimization branch, MNN-LLM. He leads the evolution of the MNN core engine and guided the team to win first place in the 2024–2025 IEEE AICAS LLM Performance Optimization Competition using MNN-LLM. His work focuses on advancing the efficient deployment and real-world application of cutting-edge AI models on mobile, IoT, and other edge devices.