Huang Fei

Chief Scientist and CAIO of AI at Honor Devices; former Vice President of Alibaba Cloud

Dr. Huang Fei has long been engaged in research and development in natural language processing and artificial intelligence. He currently serves as Chief Scientist and CAIO of AI at Honor Devices. Previously, he was Head of the Tongyi Natural Language Intelligence Lab at Alibaba and Vice President of Alibaba Cloud, as well as an adjunct professor at Zhejiang University. He led teams in the development of the Tongyi large language model system (including AliceMind, PLUG, Qwen, Embedding, DeepResearch, etc.), achieving human-surpassing results in machine reading comprehension, vision-language question answering, and Chinese language understanding, work that was recognized with the SAIL Award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference. Building on the Tongyi Qianwen model, he guided his team to focus on industry applications, enabling software development (Tongyi Lingma / Qoder), role-based dialogue, office productivity, intelligent judicial solutions, and other industry use cases. Dr. Huang has published over 300 papers in top AI conferences and journals, holds more than 100 international and domestic patents, and has over 50,000 citations on Google Scholar with an H-index of 86. He has served as area chair and journal editor for ACL, TACL, and other academic venues, and as a member of large model expert committees. He has also shared insights and technology perspectives at numerous industry conferences and government-organized seminars. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and previously worked at IBM Research and Facebook, where he contributed to and led the development of machine translation systems that help 2 billion Facebook users overcome language barriers.