Alibaba Group recently welcomed Xu Zhuhong, a world-leading artificial intelligence scientist, who will serve as the group's vice president, responsible for research and application development in the AI To C business field. This news has attracted widespread attention from the industry and marks Alibaba's further layout in the field of artificial intelligence.
Recently, Alibaba Group welcomed a heavyweight, Steven Hoi, the world's top artificial intelligence scientist. Xu Zhuhong will serve as vice president of Alibaba Group, full-time responsible for the development and promotion of multimodal basic models and Agents-related basic research and application solutions in the AI To C business field.
It is understood that Xu Zhuhong will concentrate on improving the end-to-end closed-loop capabilities of Alibaba's AI application C-end products in model combination applications, and strive to make major progress in this field. His joining will bring new development opportunities to Alibaba's AI To C business.

Xu Zhuhong is currently working in Singapore as a management staff member, and his rank may reach P10 or even P11. Prior to joining Alibaba, he served as a tenured professor at the School of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University (SMU) and is an internationally renowned artificial intelligence expert. Xu Zhuhong has a deep academic background. He has served in the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore for many years. After completing his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University, he successively obtained his master's and doctoral degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Professor Xu Zhuhong’s research direction covers basic research on machine learning and application research on artificial intelligence in multiple fields. His research results have been widely used in multiple fields such as multimedia information retrieval, computer vision, big data analysis, social media, intelligent network security, computing finance and smart cities. Up to now, he has published more than 200 high-quality conference and journal papers, with a total of more than 8,000 citations, fully demonstrating his outstanding academic achievements.
Professor Xu Zhuhong's joining will undoubtedly inject new vitality into Alibaba Group's artificial intelligence business and promote greater breakthroughs and development in this field.
Xu Zhuhong's joining not only brought technological improvements to Alibaba, but also injected new impetus into the development of the global AI field. In the future, Alibaba's performance in the field of artificial intelligence is worth looking forward to.