Hongxia Yang, PhD from Duke University, has published over 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, and holds more than 50 patents in the USA and China. Her contributions to the field have been recognised through numerous prestigious awards, including the coveted Super AI Leader (SAIL) Award at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the Second-Class National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2020, which is one of China’s highest technological honors, the First-Class Science and Technology Progress Award from the Electronics Society in 2021 and the First-Class Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education in 2022. Forbes China lauded her as one of the Top 50 Women in Tech in 2022, a testament to her trailblazing role in the tech industry. She has also been elected as AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award since 2023. Previously, she worked as a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson research center, principal scientist at Yahoo!, an AI scientist and Director at Alibaba DAMO Academy, an adjunct professor at Zhejiang University’s Shanghai Advanced Research Institute and the Head of Large Language Models at ByteDance US.