Professor Hongxia YANG
楊紅霞
YMHKEng [2026]
Chair Professor, Department of Computing, Executive Director, PolyU Academy for Artificial Intelligence (PAAI), Associate Dean, Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Senior Member, IEEE/CCF
- BEYOND Best of Innovation Awards, 2026
- World Top 50 Women in AI and Web3 by CoinDesk, 2025
- World Artificial Intelligence Conference Top 30 of the “Super AI Leader Award” (SAIL Award)., 2025
- AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award, 2023-now
- Top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes China, 2022
- Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award First Class (教育部科学技术进步奖一等奖) for Large-Scale Graph Neural Network Edge-Cloud Collaborative Computing Platform and Application Demonstration, 2022
- Chinese Institute of Electronics Science and Technology Progress First Class (中国电子学会科学技术进步奖一等奖) for Ultra-Large Scale High-Performance Graph Neural Network Computing Platform and Its Applications, 2021
- National Science and Technology Progress Award Second Class (国家科学技术进步奖二等奖) for Key Technologies in Intelligent Science and Technology Information Mining and Knowledge Services and Their Large-Scale Application, 2020
- National Natural Science Foundation of China key project (国家自然基金委重点项目), Research on Autonomous, Efficient, and Generalizable Neural Network Models in Complex E-commerce Environments, 2020
- World Artificial Intelligence Conference's highest award, the Super AI Leader (SAIL Award), 2019
- Recognized by WILEY as one of the world's most inspirational female data scientists, 2016
- Founder and Chief Scientist, InfiX.ai,
Prof. Hongxia Yang, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences and Chair Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), is the Founder and Chief Scientist of InfiX.ai. She earned her PhD from Duke University and has published over 150 papers in leading conferences and journals, and holds more than 50 patents. She has been awarded the highest prize of the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Super AI Leader (SAIL Award), the second prize of the 2020 National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2021, the Forbes China Top 50 Women in Science and Technology and Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award First Class in 2022, AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award since 2023 and Top World 50 Women in AI and Web3 by CoinDesk in 2025. She used to work as the ByteDance US LLM Head, AI Scientist and Director in Alibaba Group, Principal Data Scientist at Yahoo! Inc and Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, joint adjunct professor at Zhejiang University Shanghai Advanced Research Institute respectively. She founded the foundation model teams at both Alibaba and ByteDance and is a pioneer in the field of Generative AI.