Cheng Cui

Senior Engineer at Baidu

Head of Technology for Baidu PaddleOCR and PaddleX. He is responsible for the development of vision and OCR models and has contributed to the development of more than 80 models in the PaddlePaddle PP series, including PP-LCNet, PP-OCR, PP-YOLO, and RT-DETR. He has also participated in multiple computer vision projects within the company and holds over 30 domestic and international patents. He has won more than 10 gold medals or championships in international AI competitions, including several CVPR and ICCV workshop contests, and has been invited to give talks. In 2024, his project“Endangered Species AI Guardian 2.0”* won the **2025 Edison Award for Best New Product (Silver Award).