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Han Xiao

Xiao created Fashion-MNIST, a benchmark that uses clothing images to test image recognition.^[1] He founded Jina AI,^[2] where he co-developed jina-embeddings-v4, a model that helps search systems match text and images by meaning across languages.^[3]

Career & education

Current role

ElasticOct 2025-present

VP, AI

Previously

Jina AI2020-2025

Founder and CEO

Tencent2018-2020

Director of Engineering

Education

Technical University of Munich

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

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References

Fashion-MNISTgithub.com
The project provides labeled clothing images as a benchmark for image classification.
Han Xiao’s biographyhanxiao.io
Xiao describes founding Jina AI in 2020 and leading it until Elastic acquired it.
jina-embeddings-v4arxiv.org
Xiao and his co-authors describe a model for finding relevant text and images across languages.

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