Zhen Jia

Lead a group of Applied Scientists to develop innovative AI solutions (specialized in GAI/LLMs) for Amazon’s e-commerce platforms including retail stores and selling partners management systems.

I worked as Director for Dell Technologies’ Office of CTO to lead the China R&D team. 1. I was fully responsible for the strategy definition and implementation, team building, internal and external collaborations, and research projects management of China R&D team in OCTO. Our team is a research and advance development branch of Dell technologies’ OCTO outside of the United States, which is mainly conducting applied R&D of new technology, new concept product prototype development and incubation, and actively collaborating with top universities and standardization organizations in China. 2. The Key Technologies Area in China Research Office: 5G, Edge Computing, Intelligent Data Analytics and Management, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Security, Cloud Computing, Human-Machine Interaction and so on. 3. As the chief technology architect and project leader of the team, I actively led the team's full-cycle work of new technology and product prototype development. 4. I have served as AI/ML Domain Leader for Dell Technologies China COE’s Technical Committee and Patent Review Committee Member for Pan-Dell Patent Review Committee. 5. I frequently present and promote emerging technologies at various Dell Technologies forums and customer events, IT industry forums and expos and also academic conferences.

I was working as a Group Leader at United Technologies Research Center (China). 1. I led the Software and Intelligent Systems group with around 20 team members (60% with Ph.D. degrees). The major capabilities of the group are: video analytics, pattern recognition, user experiences/human-machine interaction, data analytics and mining, machine learning, embedded systems, high performing computing and software engineering. 2. My daily work as the Group Leader included: staffing/resource/funding allocation and management, hiring (hired about 25 full-time employees and 30 interns since 2012), project management, innovation research proposal development, research and innovation roadmap/capability development, people performance management, people training/coaching/development, technical research work, customer engagement, external interaction and collaboration and so on. 3. I had served as the UTRC (China) office local ACE leader from 2011 to 2013. I am very familiar with the UTC ACE (Achieving Competitive Excellence) and completed the UTC ACE associate program. 4. I had served as the IT leader for the UTRC (China) office from 2007 to 2010.

ACE Leader for UTRC China office Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) is United Technologies Corporation’s (UTC) operating system used to manage our evolving business to deliver the highest quality products and services to delight our customers. ACE is comprised of three distinct but integrated elements: culture, tools, and competency.

Conducted applied research work in the area of computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning for intelligent building applications. Project Leader for a few projects with 3-4 global team members.

Large Scale Image Retrieval INRIA is the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control.

I worked as a part-time research assistant for the Autonomous Vehicles Navigation project for STK. The project was the jointly collaboration project with Intelligent Systems Center, a University Research Centre co-funded by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Singapore Engineering Technologies from 2003 to 2006.

Robotics, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision

Visual Surveillance Project. Worked with Prof. Subhash Challa. UTS is University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

NTU is ranked #=26 in QS World University Rankings 2024. In the 11th QS World University Rankings (WUR) by Subject published in March 2021, NTU’s Engineering & Technology was ranked 4th position in the world and 1st position in Asian order rank. For specific subjects ranking, NTU has a total of eight subjects ranked among the top 10 in the world (Electrical & Electronic (4th)). NTU was again placed the world’s best young university (under 50 years old) by QS for the seventh consecutive year in 2020.

ENPC (Paris, France) MBA programme jointly set up with Tongji University in Shanghai. École des Ponts Paris Tech is present in international rankings, and is also in the top five in the French national rankings, alongside École polytechnique, École Centrale, and Mines ParisTech. Its researchers, teachers, and students receive regular recognition through prestigious prizes and distinctions.

One of the top 5 universities in China.