Recently, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) announced the winners of the 2021 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award, including 11 categories of awards and 66 achievements. Tian Qi, Chief Scientist of HUAWEI CLOUD Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Fellow, and Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, was awarded the 2021 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Contribution Award. Since 2011, less than 40 researchers worldwide have received this honor.
"Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award" is the only science and technology award in China's intelligent science and technology field named after Mr. Wu Wenjun, the winner of the first National Highest Science and Technology Award, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and pioneer of artificial intelligence in China, and is established by relying on social forces. This award has the qualifications to nominate and recommend the National Science and Technology Award. It is known as the "China's highest award for intelligent science and technology" and "the crown jewel in the field of artificial intelligence". It is the highest honor in the field of artificial intelligence.
According to the relevant regulations and implementation rules, the award of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Contribution Award must meet the following conditions: major breakthroughs in the field of intelligent science, technology or engineering, great contributions, and greater international influence; He has worked in related fields for more than 20 years and has great influence in the field of artificial intelligence technology innovation and application in China.
Tian Qi is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of computer vision and multimedia information retrieval. He is mainly engaged in the research of cutting-edge scientific issues in the field of artificial intelligence. Research work; as of January 2022, published more than 650 papers, won 8 international conference best (student) paper awards, Google Scholar citations exceeded 34,800, H-index was 88; in SIGMM Executive Committee, ACM MM, etc. He holds important positions in many international academic institutions and conferences, and also serves as an associate editor of several journals such as IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, ACM TOMM, Multimedia Systems Journal, Machine Vision and Applications, etc.
After joining Huawei Cloud in 2020, Tian Qi, Chief Scientist of Huawei Cloud Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Fellow, and Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Tian Qi and his team insisted on AI root technology innovation, and led the development of Huawei Cloud Pangu series pre-training large models, aiming to establish A set of general and easy-to-use artificial intelligence development workflows to empower more industries and developers to realize AI industrial development. At present, Huawei Cloud Pangu series large models have been implemented in many industries such as industry, city, energy, finance, and meteorology, and have been used in more than 100 business scenarios such as power inspection, railway inspection, wave prediction, and abnormal behavior detection of financial institutions and enterprises. in practice.
At the same time, based on his long-term accumulation in academia and industry, Tian Qi continues to promote the training of AI talents and scientific research innovation practices between Huawei Cloud and universities, builds a communication platform for the presidents and deans of top artificial intelligence universities in China, and builds Huawei Cloud AI Industry-university-research ecology, discussing challenges and problems in business scenarios, invigorating the innovation atmosphere, and effectively promoting the implementation of innovation results.