Yulong Ao

Head of AI Framework Development at BAAI

Yulong Ao is the Head of AI Framework R&D at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI). He holds a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and completed his postdoctoral research at Peking University. He currently leads the development of several key components within FlagOS, an open-source unified AI software stack, including the large model training-inference integrated framework FlagScale, the unified communication library FlagCX, and the unified plugin ecosystem FlagOS-UniDev. He was among the first in the industry to propose practical, industry-deployable technical solutions for cross-chip heterogeneous training and heterogeneous inference for large models. His research focuses on distributed systems and performance optimization in the fields of artificial intelligence, high-performance computing (HPC), and scientific computing. He previously worked at Huawei and Baidu, where he contributed to the development of core technologies for large-model systems. In 2016, he was part of the team that won China’s first ACM Gordon Bell Prize. He has published more than ten papers in top international conferences and journals, holds multiple domestic and international patents, and has participated in the development of national and international standards related to operator interfaces and communication libraries.