Previously led the research and development of Alibaba Cloud computing platform, with academician Wang Jian serving as the director of Zhijiang Laboratory Intelligence | Laboratory | Wang Jian serving as the director
On July 18th, the official website of the Zhejiang Provincial Government announced a notice of appointment and removal. After research by the provincial government, it was decided that Wang Jian would be appointed as the director of the Zhijiang Laboratory and Zhu Shiqiang would be removed from his position as the director of the Zhijiang Laboratory.
Zhijiang Laboratory is a major scientific and technological innovation platform for Zhejiang to explore a new national system. Established in 2017, it is a new type of research and development institution with the nature of a public institution led by the provincial government, supported by Zhejiang University and other universities, and participated by enterprises. The first director was Zhu Shiqiang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang University, and Wang Jian, then Chairman of the Technical Committee of Alibaba Group, served as a member of the first council.
According to public information, Wang Jian was born in October 1962 and graduated from the Department of Psychology at Hangzhou University in 1990 with a doctoral degree in engineering psychology. He once served as director of the Department of Psychology of Hangzhou University, vice president of the School of Science of Zhejiang University, director researcher of Microsoft Research Asia, executive vice president and researcher of Microsoft Research Asia. He joined Alibaba Group in 2008, presided over the research and development of Alibaba Cloud computing platform, and was elected an academician of the CAE Member in 2019. On July 12th, Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, presided over a symposium on platform enterprises. According to Chao News, Wang Jian attended and gave a speech, mainly discussing the fundamental role of cloud computing platform enterprises in innovation for technology enterprises and supporting Chinese technology platform enterprises to accelerate their global layout.
Zhijiang Laboratory focuses on intelligent perception, artificial intelligence, intelligent computing, intelligent networks, and intelligent systems, with a focus on conducting cutting-edge basic research, key technology breakthroughs, and major equipment system research and development. It was included in the national laboratory system in 2021. Pengpai News learned that by the end of last year, more than 20 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, as well as overseas academicians, had joined and participated in the work of Zhijiang Laboratory through full-time and part-time positions such as chief scientist and project leader. As of May this year, the talent scale of the laboratory has exceeded 4000 people, including 2200 full-time employees and more than 260 research leaders.