ANNEX DOC. AIL-201 | GOVERNANCE AND ROSTER PLATES
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FIG. P1 Collaboration field for research and systems work.

Roster

Research judgment plus systems execution.

Board and steering members connect papers, code, infrastructure, and adoption.

Board of Directors

Long-term direction across agents, memory, routing, and inference.

Xunzhuo Liu

Xunzhuo Liu

Board of Directors / Industry Track

LLM Routing @ vLLM | 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

System taste, review pressure, and public output discipline.

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 across AI/ML, intelligent systems, sustainable computing, IoT, and cyber-physical systems.

Huamin Chen

Huamin Chen

Steering Committee

Long-term incubator of frontier infrastructure and AI systems.

Works across cloud-native platforms, open-source ecosystems, and model-serving stacks.

Turns early technologies into durable platforms, communities, and adoption paths.