Dr. Ji Liu at Tencent AI Lab Named “Innovator Under 35 in China”

Beijing, Jan 30, 2018 – Tencent Holdings Limited (“Tencent”, SEHK: 00700),a leading provider of Internet value-added services in China, announced today that Dr. Ji Liu, a researcher at Tencent AI Lab was selected as one of the “35 Innovators Under 35 in China” by MIT Technology Review. The global MIT Technology Review’s annual “35 Innovators Under the Age of 35” (aka TR35) is a reputable list recognizing exceptionally talented young innovators whose work has the greatest potential to transform the world, being launched for the first time in China.

Tencent AI Lab researcher, Dr. Ji Liu, also an assistant professor at the University of Rochester, is dedicated to AI research topics including distributed machine learning platform, reinforcement learning and game AI. The decentralized parallel framework he proposed was accepted as an oral paper (the rate is about 1%) in the top machine learning conference NIPS last year. The decentralized distributed framework solves the communication bottleneck in the widely used centralized counterpart. His work in tensor completion is the No.1 cited paper in this domain. His work in bridging reinforcement learning and minimax optimization received the Facebook best student paper award in UAI 2015, and robust multi-task learning received the best paper honorable mention award in the top conference of data mining SIGKDD 2010. Dr. Ji holds a Ph.D. in the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Established in 1999, TR35 is an annual list that recognizes exceptionally talented technology innovators and projects in theworld. Each year, MIT technology Review seeks nominees from the categories of technology (computing, telecommunication, internet), biomedical,business and others. The panel of judges review the candidates under the criteria of their influence, creativity, aggressiveness and potential to select the most talented 35 innovators. Over the years, they have had success in choosing women and men whose innovations and companies have been profoundly influential on the direction of human affairs. Previous winners include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, a co-founders of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder of Facebook;Zhang Feng, the inventor of CRISPR genome editing technology; Wu Enda, a former chief scientist of Baidu, among others.

The full list of MIT technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35 in China” can be viewed at http://www.mittrchina.com/news/1623