University
Tsinghua University (清华大学)
Beijing (北京)
Single biggest source of China AI talent. Spawned Zhipu, Moonshot, Megvii. Major sub-units: KEG (Knowledge Engineering Group), Yao Class / IIIS, AIR.
Labs that originated here
24 tracked researchers studied here
SHAO Zhihong (邵智宏)· Research Scientist, DeepSeekGOU Zhibin (苟志斌)· Core researcher, DeepSeekTANG Jie (唐杰)· Co-founder & controlling shareholder, Zhipu; WeBank Chair Professor, Tsinghua CSLI Juanzi (李娟子)· Co-founder, Zhipu; Professor, Tsinghua CS (KEG)ZHANG Peng (张鹏)· CEO, ZhipuDU Zhengxiao (杜正晓)· Tech Lead, Zhipu (since January 2023)DING Ming (丁铭)· Now at ByteDance Seed (formerly Zhipu)YANG Zhilin (杨植麟)· Founder & CEO, Moonshot AIZHANG Yutao (张宇韬)· Co-founder & CTO, Moonshot AIZHOU Xinyu (周昕宇)· Co-founder & head of algorithms, Moonshot AIWU Yuxin (吴育昕)· Co-founder & research lead, Moonshot AIYAN Junjie (闫俊杰)· Founder, Chairman, CEO and CTO, MiniMaxJI Heng (季姮)· Full Professor, UIUC; Amazon Scholar; Founding Director of Amazon-Illinois AICE CenterCHEN Bei (陈蓓)· Researcher, MSRAWANG Xiaochuan (王小川)· Founder & CEO, BaichuanRU Liyun (茹立云)· Co-founder, BaichuanZHU Yibo (朱亦博)· Co-founder & CTO, StepFunYIN Qi (印奇)· Chairman, StepFun (January 2026); Chairman, Megvii; Chairman, Qianli Tech (Geely)YAO Shunyu (姚顺雨)· Chief AI Scientist, Tencent (December 2025)HU Han (胡瀚)· Head of Multimodal Large Model R&D, Tencent Hunyuan (joined 2024)CHANG Huiwen (常惠雯)· Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs (since 2025)SUN Pei (孙培)· Researcher, Meta Superintelligence Labs (since 2025)YAO Shunyu (Stanford physics) (姚顺宇)· Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind core Gemini team (since September 29, 2025)HAN Song (韩松)· Associate Professor MIT EECS