Daxin JiangCo-founder and CEO · StepFun AIResearcher↗
Founder · Executive · Engineer
Qi Yin
StepFun AIChairman
Yin helped launch China's computer-vision startup wave by co-founding Megvii, whose Face++ and Brain++ systems brought visual recognition into large-scale products. He now chairs StepFun, setting strategy and technical direction as the foundation-model company connects multimodal AI with cars, robots and other devices.
Career & education
Current role
StepFun AI2026-presentChairman
StepFun AI2026-presentPreviously
Megvii2011-2024Co-founder, Chairman and CEO
Megvii2011-2024Microsoft Research Asia2009-2011
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Tsinghua University
Columbia University
