Zhenzhong Lan (兰振中)
Director, AGI Research Center; Tenured Associate Professor, Westlake University — Ant Group
Dual role as Director of Ant Group's AGI Research Center and tenured Associate Professor at Westlake University. Created ALBERT at Google (10,000+ citations, deployed in Google News and Google Assistant). Corresponding author on the LLaDA diffusion language model series. ~15,000 citations. MIT "Top 35 Innovators Under 35" Asia-Pacific (2021).
Affiliations
- ● Ant Group — Director, AGI Research Center; Tenured Associate Professor, Westlake UniversityFormerly: Google (Research Scientist, 2018-2020, created ALBERT); PhD Carnegie Mellon University (2017); BS Sun Yat-sen University (2010)