Han Xiao

Dr. Han Xiao is the Founder & CEO of Jina AI. Jina AI is a Neural Search Company. It provides the cloud-native neural search solution powered by state-of-the-art AI and deep learning. Found in 2020 Feb, Jina has closed the seed round and is recognized as one of the most promising startups in AI open-source software.

From 2018-2020, Dr. Han Xiao is leading a team on neural information retrieval at Tencent AI, laying down the next-gen search infrastructure for a China’s everyday app: Wechat. Han serves in the Tencent Technical Advisory Council and Opensource Program Office, fostering the open-source and DevOps culture inside the company. Han is an AI open-source evangelist. His Fashion-MNIST and bert-as-service were listed as the most popular AI open-source projects in 2017&18 world-widely.

In 2019, Han served as a board member at LF AI Foundation, driving the open source innovation in AI by enabling international collaboration. He is also the Founder & Chairman of the German-Chinese Association of AI. The GCAAI he found in 2017 now has more than 700 members across Germany and China and quoted by the Nature.

Before joining Tencent, Han worked at Zalando in Berlin for 3.5y. He received his Ph.D. (2014) and M.Sc. (2009) in computer science from the Technical University of Munich in Germany. His Ph.D. is about adversarial and robust learning on Bayesian and non-parametric Bayesian methods.

Han Xiao is the CEO and Founder at Jina AI, based in Europe. With a background in Software, Han Xiao has a rich history of leadership and innovation. Explore their detailed professional journey, key connections, and contributions to the industry on our platform.