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Senior AI scientist Alex Lamb once shrugged off China. Now he’s joining Tsinghua
Lamb has trained under a Turing Award winner and worked at top companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s DeepMind
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“Chinese institutions do 5 to 15 per cent AI research now in articles and meetings, and produce quite a bit less research than US institutions.”
That was how noted artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Alex Lamb described the significant gap in AI research between Chinese and US universities in 2017, in a video published on his personal YouTube account.
Now, after several years of strong commitments by the Chinese government to supporting AI research and development, Lamb is headed to Beijing to work as an assistant professor at Tsinghua University.
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He confirmed the news on Sunday in a comment on the same 2017 video.
He is expected to join the university at the start of the autumn term, where he will recruit graduate students for Tsinghua’s College of AI and Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences.
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Lamb, who showed an early interest in AI, has studied under a Turing Award winner and worked for US tech giants at Amazon Web Services, Google’s DeepMind and Microsoft.
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