Leadership
The Semantic AI is led by a board of directors and a steering committee spanning research, systems, and deployment perspectives.
The Board of Directors is organized into Industry and Academia tracks.
Leadership Body
Board of Directors
The board brings together deployment experience and academic research across the semantic AI stack.
Bowei He
Academia Track
Postdoc @ MBZUAI, McGill | PhD @ CityUHK | Interned @ Tencent Hunyuan LLM (Qingyun Talent)
Yankai Chen
Academia Track
Postdoctoral Associate, McGill University | MBZUAI
Research spanning agentic AI, human-centered AI, and knowledge mining.
Fuyuan Lv
Academia Track
PhD Candidate @ McGill University and Mila.
Research in data-centric AI, automatic feature selection, and automatic labeling for deep learning and foundation models.
Leadership Body
Steering Committee
The steering committee supports direction-setting and the translation between research goals and execution.
Steve Liu
Steering Committee
Associate Vice President for Research at MBZUAI; Professor at McGill; Associate Member at Mila; Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and IEEE.
Research spanning AI and machine learning, intelligent computing and communication systems, sustainable computing, IoT, and cyber-physical systems.
Huamin Chen
Steering Committee
Long-term incubator of frontier infrastructure and AI systems across cloud-native platforms, open-source ecosystems, and emerging model-serving stacks.
Focused on turning early technologies into durable open-source platforms, communities, and real-world adoption paths.