Guoliang Cao was born in Hunan and graduated from Tsinghua University and the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Later, he came to the United States, where he has been working in computer software development for a long time. Since AlphaGo’s remarkable debut in 2016, when it defeated Go world champion Lee Sedol, Guoliang has focused on and studied Artificial Intelligence technologies, with research areas including Deep Learning, LLM and AI-assisted programming.

Jeff Du, a graduate from Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学) and Duke, has been working in bioinformatics and biostatistics for several years. Alongside his professional work in NGS data analysis and large scale programming work, he also has strong interest in applying AI techniques to everyday life. On weekends, he likes to spend time on projects involving computer vision and building his own home security system. In his free time, he also enjoys marathon running and participating in triathlons. 

Yu Yang (Ph.D., PE, PMP) had worked as a water engineer for about 10 years. Currently he is working full time as a data scientist. His primary interests include web development, machine learning, AIGC, and large language model (LLM). His representative side projects are as follows.

Chong Ding was born in Shenyang, China. After moving to the US in 2003, Chong received a master's degree in electrical engineering from University Missouri-Rolla, as well a MBA from Duke University. Chong is currently working on chip design for compute and AIs.

Chong's interests in AI goes back around 2015, at the time he finished several online courses such as Machine Learning, Udacity Deep Learning NanoDegree. Chong is interested in building applications based on large language models.

Yi Li was born in Beijing, China. After obtaining the bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, he came to the U.S. in 2005. He attended NYU and earned a master’s degree. After that, he has been working as a solution architect until recently becoming a freelancer. Since 2022, Yi has been involved in AI/ML, with interests in its application in the financial field and diffusion models.

Yang “Alice” Cheng (Ph.D., MBA) received a Ph.D. degree from the Missouri School of Journalism, which is one of the oldest formal journalism schools in the world. She also graduated with an outstanding academic award from the nationally recognized Crosby MBA program.