Yang Zhilin — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Co-founder of Moonshot AI, an AI company launched in March 2023.
Co-founded Recurrent AI in 2016, developing AI-driven sales tools.
Co-author of influential AI research papers, including XLNet and Transformer-XL.
Holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (2019) and graduated from Tsinghua University (2015).

Biography

Yang Zhilin is a Chinese entrepreneur and AI researcher, recognized for his contributions to artificial intelligence through both academic research and company founding. Born in 1992 in Shantou, Guangdong province, Yang demonstrated early academic prowess, earning admission to Tsinghua University after winning first prize in the National Olympiad in Informatics. He initially majored in thermal engineering before switching to computer science, where his academic advisor was Jie Tang.