About Me
Welcome!
My name is Han Xiao (肖涵), the Founder & CEO of Jina AI. Jina AI is a Neural Search Company, our mission is to provide an open-source neural search ecosystem for businesses and developers, allowing everyone to search for information in all kinds of data with high availability and scalability.
From 2018 to 2020, I led a team on neural information retrieval at Tencent AI, laying down the next-gen search infrastructure for China’s everyday app: Wechat. I was a member of Tencent Technical Advisory Council and Opensource Program Office, fostering the company’s open-source and DevOps culture. In 2019, I served in the board of LF AI Foundation, driving the open source innovation in AI by enabling international collaboration. I orchestrated Tencent joining the TODO Group in July 2019.
Before joining Tencent, I worked at Zalando in Berlin for 3.5y. I received my Ph.D. (2014) and M.Sc. (2009) in computer science from the Technical University of Munich in Germany. My Ph.D. is about adversarial and robust learning on Bayesian and non-parametric Bayesian methods.
I’m the creator of Fashion-MNIST and bert-as-service. These two open source projects were listed as the most popular AI open-source projects in 2017&18.
I’m the Founder & Chairman of the German-Chinese Association of AI.
Selected talks & interviews:
- Interview by Floydhub, 2020.6, The Future of AI is Open
- Guest post at LFAI, 2020.5, All-In Open Source: Why I Quit Tech Giant and Found My OSS Startup
- Interview: 200 Days as a Board Member in LF AI Foundation, QBit/量子位
- GNES opensource and Tencent OSPO presentation, OSS Summit EU, Lyon France
- Keynote at Darwin’s Circle, Vienna, Austria
- Panel Discussion (moderated by Christopher Keller from the Telegraph) at Darwin’s Circle, Vienna, Austria
- Interviewed by the Nature Magazine
- Interviewed by Alex Williams from the New Stack
- Keynote at Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference 2019, Vienna, Austria, invited by the Economic Chamber of Austria
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019: AI/ML Media & Analyst Roundtable, Shanghai, China
- Opening talk & keynote at the annual meeting of German-Chinese Association of AI 2019, Berlin, Germany
- Interviewed by the derbrutkasten (an Austrian tech-focused media)
- Interviewed by OÖNachrichten (an Austrian local newspaper)
- Interviewed by Die Chinesische Handelskammer in Deutschland (德国中国商会)
- Internal talks at Amazon, SAP, HERE, OLX, Axel-Springer, Zalando, Carmeq, Porsche Digital Lab, appliedAI, etc. mostly in Germany Berlin and Munich area, 2018-2019
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