People

We are organized through a Board of Directors and a Steering Committee spanning industry, academia, and systems leadership across persistent agent systems, routing, memory, and infrastructure.

This structure connects research direction, technical execution, and long-term stewardship of public systems.

Board of Directors

The board brings together industry builders and academic researchers guiding the lab's long-term direction across persistent agent systems, routing, memory, and infrastructure.

Xunzhuo Liu

Xunzhuo Liu

Board of Directors · Industry Track

Founder @ vLLM Semantic Router | CNCF Ambassador | Linux Foundation APAC Ambassador

Chair of Kubernetes AI Gateway WG | Core builder across multiple industry open source projects

Bowei He

Bowei He

Board of Directors · Academia Track

Postdoc @ MBZUAI, McGill | PhD @ CityUHK | Interned @ Tencent Hunyuan LLM (Qingyun Talent)

Yankai Chen

Yankai Chen

Board of Directors · Academia Track

Postdoctoral Associate, McGill University | MBZUAI

Research spanning agentic AI, human-centered AI, and knowledge mining.

Fuyuan Lyu

Fuyuan Lyu

Board of Directors · 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.

Steering Committee

The steering committee supports research direction, systems execution, and the translation between lab priorities and durable public outputs.

Steve Liu

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

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.