Fan Ye

Head of Heterogeneous AI R&D, Tencent Cloud

Dr Ye Fan has been specialising in AI Infrastructure and is deeply involved in heterogeneous computing. After obtaining his PhD from the French Atomic Energy Agency, Dr Ye went to NVIDIA in Silicon Valley to be in charge of CUDA research and development, and was also one of the founders of TensorRT. Afterwards, he designed and developed PAI-Blade from scratch, and widely empowered many industries, spanning e-commerce, CV, NLP, ASR and other fields. Currently, Ye Fan leads the heterogeneous computing R&D team in Tencent Cloud to build TACO, the AI acceleration engine in Tencent Smart Computing, including TACO-Train, TACO-Infer, and TACO-LLM. Another masterpiece of the team, qGPU, has also helped many customers inside and outside the group to expand their GPU computing power and achieve extreme benefits with its industry-leading GPU virtualisation technology.