Speaker Bio
Steven HOI is currently Vice President of Alibaba Group and Chief Scientist of the Intelligent Information Business Group.
With over 20 years of experience in both the AI industry and academia, Steven HOI has held professorial positions at Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University. He has published more than 300 top-tier academic papers in the field of artificial intelligence, which have been cited over 50,000 times.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to machine learning for multimedia information retrieval and scalable data analysis, Steven HOI was named an IEEE Fellow in 2019—one of the highest honors in the global science and engineering community. He has also been recognized by Stanford University as one of the top 1% of AI scientists worldwide.
As a leading figure in the field of multimodal large models, Steven HOI previously served as Vice President of Salesforce, the world’s largest enterprise software company, and was the founding director of its Asia Research Institute. There, he built Salesforce’s AI research ecosystem in Asia from the ground up and led several pioneering AI research projects and product innovations.
In 2023, Steven HOI founded an AI startup, where he developed cutting-edge multimodal large language models and launched state-of-the-art image and video generation technologies.