Xia Lixue

Earned both bachelor's and PhD from Tsinghua University's Department of Electronic Engineering, as the first PhD student supervised by Professor Wang Yu. Worked at Alibaba Cloud as product technology lead for user growth, responsible for LLM compression-acceleration and generative-AI chip initiatives, then co-founded Infinigence AI with Wang Yu in 2023 as CEO. His team completed the world's first '4+2' heterogeneous thousand-GPU mixed training of a 70-billion-parameter model (up to 97.6% MFU) and shipped third-generation inference clusters serving over a thousand clients; the company raised RMB 2.3 billion in new funding in October 2026. Five-time Stanford Global Top 2% scientist and two-time AI 2000 honoree; named a 2025 National Model Worker in industry and IT and one of CCTV's ten AI figures of 2025; deputy in Shanghai's Xuhui District People's Congress.