# Meitao (Mei Tao)

Earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees at the University of Science and Technology of China, entering the automation department in 1996 and completing the doctorate in 2006. An IEEE Fellow, foreign fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and chief scientist for a major AI project under the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Science and Technology Innovation 2030 program. Worked at Microsoft Research Asia for 12 years, then became deputy director of JD Explore Academy and a JD vice president. Founder and CEO of HiDream.ai, a unicorn in multimodal generative AI and world models.

Earned undergraduate and doctoral degrees at the University of Science and Technology of China, entering the automation department in 1996 and completing the doctorate in 2006. An IEEE Fellow, foreign fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and chief scientist for a major AI project under the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Science and Technology Innovation 2030 program. Worked at Microsoft Research Asia for 12 years, then became deputy director of JD Explore Academy and a JD vice president. Founder and CEO of HiDream.ai, a unicorn in multimodal generative AI and world models.

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