Scholar
Xiaolong Li
Google Scholar ID: CiGfmNcAAAAJ
Tencent Group, Alibaba Group, Ant Group, Microsoft
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,699
H-index
25
i10-index
38
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published 80+ papers in top-tier AI conferences and journals.
- Holds 20+ granted US patents and 150+ granted or pending Chinese patents.
- Recent papers accepted by ACL 2025, EMNLP 2025, and NeurIPS 2025.
- Led AliMe (Alibaba’s intelligent customer service platform), recognized as the market leader in China’s Conversational AI by IDC, Gartner, and iResearch since 2021.
- Developed the 'Intelligent Live Room' digital human product for Taobao Live, improving merchant efficiency and conversion.
Research Experience
- Apr 2023–Present: Tencent AI Lab & Hunyuan LLM group, leading applied research on LLM-based Digital Human technologies for Tencent businesses.
- Oct 2021–Apr 2023: Led the Intelligent Innovation Center (IIC) at Alibaba’s Damo Academy, focusing on incubation and commercialization of Digital Human and Intelligent Customer Service technologies (e.g., AliMe series).
- Mar 2020–Sep 2021: VP and Chairman of Technical Committee at AMap (AutoNavi), Alibaba Group, based in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Seattle.
- Mar 2016–Mar 2020: Director and later Senior Director of Engineering in AI Department at Ant Group.
- Jul 2014–Mar 2016: Senior Staff Engineer at iDST (predecessor of Damo Academy), Alibaba Group.
- 2005–2014: Worked at Microsoft (Seattle) in Incubation Group, MSR, and Bing; served as RSDE Lead in Query Understanding team, Core Relevance Group of Bing Search.
