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Article: Chinese AI and robotics firms appoint millennial and Gen Z rising stars as chief scientists

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Chinese tech companies like Tencent, AgiBot, and PrimeBot are appointing millennials and Generation Z researchers as chief scientists to lead AI and robotics innovation. These young experts, including Princeton graduate Yao and Peking University professor Dong Hao, focus on fundamental research and strategic planning for future technologies.

The trend highlights a focus on attracting top-tier, globally educated talent with experience at elite institutions like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Imperial College London. Their work involves advancing core AI methodologies, such as optimizing model design through "context learning" and improving computer vision techniques.

The main topics covered are leadership appointments in Chinese tech, the youth and global background of the new AI scientists, and their specific research focuses in artificial intelligence and robotics.

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Big Tech - South China Morning Post

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2026-02-19 04:00

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Chinese AI and robotics firms appoint millennial and Gen Z rising stars as chief scientists
Young talent drive AI innovation at Chinese tech firms, focusing on fundamental research and strategic planning for future technologies
Chinese tech companies from Tencent Holdings to AgiBot have named millennials and even Gen Z talent as chief scientists to lead cutting-edge research into artificial intelligence and robotics.
A graduate of Princeton University and Tsinghua University, Yao was a core contributor to OpenAI’s first AI agents, Operator and Deep Research. In January, the first paper co-authored by him after joining the Chinese company was published, arguing that “context learning” should be placed at the centre of future model design to optimise AI models.
Besides Yao, Tencent retains renowned computer vision expert Zhang Zhengyou as chief scientist, who joined in 2018 after 20 years at Google. In 2013, he received the Helmholtz Prize, an award given biannually at the International Conference on Computer Vision, for the Zhang’s Camera Calibration Method, a technique named after him which improved 3D computer vision.
In early January, PrimeBot named Peking University professor Dong Hao as chief scientist. Born after 1990, Dong is a tenured associate professor at the university’s School of Computer Science who obtained his PhD degree at Imperial College London.
AgiBot’s own chief scientist, hired last year, is also a millennial. Luo Jianlan, 33, previously worked at Google’s “moon shot factory” Google X and AI research lab Google DeepMind. He has closely collaborated with renowned computer scientist Sergey Levine, a co-founder of San Francisco-based AI start-up Physical Intelligence.