A timeline outlining key moments, and milestones for this wiki
1st July 2014
Received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Peking University, where he studied from 2009 to 2014. His research focused on cross-media retrieval.
1st January 2015
Began his industry career at Google, first as a Software Engineer (2015-2017) and later as a Researcher at Google Brain (2017-2023), contributing to major AI projects.
1st January 2023
Became a Senior Staff Research Scientist and Tech Lead Manager at Google DeepMind in Zürich, leading a multimodal research group focused on models like SigLIP and PaliGemma.
1st December 2024
Announced he was joining OpenAI to help co-build its new Zürich office as a Member of Technical Staff.
1st June 2025
Announced his move to join Meta's new superintelligence research team, Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), along with former colleagues from OpenAI and Google.