Congratulations to Huazhe Xu for winning the 2024 WAIC Cloud Sail Award! It's a well-deserved honor for his outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.

The list of winners for the 2024 WAIC Cloud Sail Award has been officially announced. Huazhe Xu, Principal Investigator at the Shanghai Qi Zhi Research Institute, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University, and co-founder of Xinghai Map, has been honored with the "Bright Star" award at the 2024 WAIC Cloud Sail Awards!

Huazhe Xu

Currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the United States.

His research focuses include embodied intelligence and robotics, reinforcement learning, and imitation learning. He has systematically studied visual deep reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and robot manipulation, making several contributions to solving core issues in the field of embodied artificial intelligence, such as low data efficiency and weak generalization capabilities. He has published over fifty top conference papers, and his representative work has been reported by media outlets such as MIT Technology Review and Stanford HAI.

Award Introduction

The WAIC Cloud Sail Award was initiated in 2020 and is the world's first award dedicated to recognizing young talents in the field of artificial intelligence. Over the past four years, a total of 98 top awardees have been selected, whose research achievements, open-source projects, or industrial practices have made positive contributions to the development of AI.

The 2024 Cloud Sail Award continues to discover and motivate the most promising young technical talents in the AI field, setting up two major lists: "Bright Star" and "Rising Star," and the award ceremony will be held at the 2024 WAIC Artificial Intelligence Young Pioneers Forum.

The "Bright Star" list selects ten outstanding technical personnel in the field of artificial intelligence hardware and software under the age of 35.

The "Rising Star" list selects fifteen excellent AI talents under the age of 30 with strong development potential.