Hongxia Yang
Hongxia Yang is Co-founder & CEO at Reallm, a new startup based on a decentralized, small model approach to AI. She is the former Head of AI at ByteDance US and the Director of Artificial intelligence & Machine Learning at Alibaba Group. Founded and led the foundation model teams at both Alibaba and ByteDance.
Received her PhD in Statistics/Machine Learning from Duke University in 2010, and served as Principal Scientist of computational Ads at Yahoo! Inc and Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Dr. Yang’s research includes pre-trained models, big data analytics, and the practical deployment of LLM systems in real settings. She has received major awards including the 2019 SAIL Award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the 2020 National Science and Technology Progress Award, China's top tech accolade. Dr. Yang was named one of Forbes China's Top 50 Women in Tech in 2022 and AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in 2023-2024.