Co-founders

Xudong Han （CEO）

Graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, specializing in the evaluation and enhancement of fairness in natural language processing. Currently employed as a researcher at the MBZUAI in the United Arab Emirates. Published over ten academic papers in top conferences in the field of AI safety.

Haonan Li (CTO)

Graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the MBZUAI in the United Arab Emirates.  He proposed the commonly used Chinese LLM evaluation benchmark CMMLU and was responsible for the evaluation of JAIS, the first Arabic LLM.

Yuxia Wang (COO)

Graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia, with a Ph.D. in Computer Science. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the MBZUAI in the United Arab Emirates. Her primary research focus is on large-scale model-based hallucination and fact detection.

Timothy Baldwin (Advisor)

Acting Provost and Professor at the MBZUAI, holding an honorary professorship at the University of Melbourne. Previously, he held the position of Chair of the ACL 2022 and served as the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Associate Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. He also served as the Director of the Australian Academy of Science's Cognitive Computing Training Center for Medical Technologies.