(Original title: Quick Look | JD establishes JD Cloud and AI Division, and the person in charge reports to Liu Qiangdong)

NetEase Science and Technology News on December 7, JD Group announced the establishment of JD Cloud and AI Business Unit to integrate the structure and responsibilities of the former JD Cloud, artificial intelligence, and IoT business units. Zhou Bowen, vice president of JD Group, served as the person in charge. Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO Liu Qiangdong reported.

JD stated that Zhou Bowen will lead JD Cloud, artificial intelligence, and IoT teams to focus on strategy, technology, products, innovation, scenario-based top-level design, and commercial landing, and integrate JD's "dry hammering" cutting-edge technology with the real economy, and strive To achieve the goals of academic frontiers and technology commercialization.

Zhou Bowen said: "Since its inception, JD.com has adhered to the core philosophy of honesty, adhered to genuine licensed products, advocated quality economy, and became a trusted retail platform for consumers in China. In recent years, JD. Retail-based technology and service companies, and in-depth and widely applied and promote the development of the industry, thereby reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and improving user experience. Liu Qiangdong's positioning of JD as the technology driver in the next 12 years is extremely visionary and very correct Decided that I have a great responsibility for taking on the important responsibilities of specific management, implementation and implementation of this strategy and helping Jingdong become a retail-based technology and service company. Under the leadership of Liu Qiangdong, I will work with my colleagues in Jingdong Go all out to pursue excellence, use artificial intelligence and big data as capabilities and assets, and use the combination of JD Cloud and JD Internet of Things (IoT) cloud + ends to leverage 5G technology to provide technology for JD Group's retail, logistics, and finance scenarios And service support, and enable the accumulated experience and results to be exported to external business partners. "

Bowen Zhou was the head of the Artificial Intelligence Foundation Research Institute of New York Headquarters of IBM Research, Chief Scientist of IBM Watson Group, and IBM Distinguished Engineer. He has more than 20 years of artificial intelligence basic technology research, product development and management experience. Language understanding and artificial intelligence technology have achieved outstanding achievements in core areas such as large-scale applications in the industry. He has published hundreds of papers in world-class journals and top academic conferences, and holds nearly 20 patents.

The international academic part-time positions and services he has served include: member of the IEEE Speech and Language Technology Expert Group, editorial board members of several IEEE journals, chair of the ICASSP field (2011-2015), serving as top academic conferences such as ACL, NAACL, etc. Chair of the field in machine learning and information extraction.

After returning home in 2017 to join JD.com, he led the team to publish 130+ papers in top AI conferences and journals, and won 12 international championships in international academic competitions such as CVPR, ECCV, WikiHop. He is also an expert member of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Research Center, a member of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Strategy Expert Committee, a consultant in Guangzhou and Beijing, a member of the National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional Committee, and a member of the China University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Adjunct professors at Harbin Institute of Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and other top domestic institutions of higher learning.

At the 2019 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference, Zhou Bowen announced that JD Artificial Intelligence is undergoing a new strategic upgrade for 2020, focusing on one platform and two major tracks: the core platform of JD Artificial Intelligence ’s NeuHub, as the core carrier, for continuous construction A new generation of artificial intelligence open innovation platform in the intelligent supply chain country, as well as focusing on the two tracks of intelligent interactive RPA and video Internet of Things, and released a series of enterprise-level AI products and solutions based on this.

Bowen Zhou, as the person in charge of the artificial intelligence business department, planned and constructed the Jingdong NeuHub artificial intelligence open platform. During 11.11, 2019, more than 30 technical interfaces and services such as content auditing, sentiment analysis, and speech recognition. The artificial intelligence technology interface supports the stability of the Group's internal business. In operation, JD.com's internal business calls totaled 29.8 billion. In addition, the NeuHub JD Artificial Intelligence Open Platform has increased external user interface calls by 35 times compared to 618 during November 11.11. In addition, JD.com also released NeuFoundry, a foundry that privatizes AI capabilities of enterprises, to help enterprise-level partners quickly and cost-effectively build their own intelligent middle platforms, customize their own AI capabilities, and complete intelligent upgrade transformation

Jingdong said that under the leadership of Zhou Bowen, Jingdong Cloud and the AI Division will focus on synergy and value creation, and leverage JD.com's accumulated technological advantages in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, Internet of Things and other fields, and output integrated technologies Solutions to promote JD from integration to integration and openness, accelerate JD's transformation to a retail-based technology and service company, create greater value for users, partners and society, and release JD ’s true industry and society value.

Source: Netease Technology Report, translated by Google Translate

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