Scholar
Wei-Ying Ma
Google Scholar ID: SToCbu8AAAAJ
Tsinghua University
Citations & Impact
Citations
14,816
H-index
46
i10-index
211
Publications
20
Co-authors
73
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of ACM and IEEE; published over 300 papers; granted 169 patents; served as program co-chair of WWW 2008 and general co-chair of SIGIR 2011; member of editorial boards for several journals including ACM TOIS, ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, and Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications; member of International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee from 2010-2016.
Research Experience
- Served as the Director of Health Computing Research Center with Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) from 2021 to 2023. Before joining Tsinghua, he was the Vice President and Head of AI Lab at ByteDance, where he led research and technology development in areas such as machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, etc. Under his leadership, various AI-powered content creation and dissemination technologies were developed and integrated into products like Douyin, TikTok, Jinri Toutiao, CapCut, and Lark.
Background
- Huiyan Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and the Chief Scientist at Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR). His main research focuses on AI for Science, especially in AI-powered drug discovery and generative AI for biology and chemistry. Co-founded AIR with Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang and is also a co-founder of Helixon, a startup focusing on next-generation AI for antibody design and protein therapeutics discovery.
Miscellany
- At ByteDance, recruited over 300 researchers and established labs across multiple locations worldwide. The technologies developed under his guidance significantly contributed to the success of Douyin and TikTok, which have reshaped the internet industry landscape.
