Tsinghua University
UC Santa Barbara
Daxin JiangCo-founder and CEO · StepFun AIResearcher↗Both at StepFun AI
Founder · Executive
Yibo Zhu
StepFun AICo-founder and CTO
Zhu is a co-founder and CTO of the Chinese AI lab StepFun, working on machine-learning systems, distributed training, and computer networks. Before StepFun he was a researcher at ByteDance, where he built the BytePS distributed DNN-training framework, and previously worked at Microsoft Research and Google after a PhD at UC Santa Barbara.
Career & education
Current roleStepFun AI2023-presentCo-founder and CTO
StepFun AI2023-presentPreviously
Google2023-2023Senior Staff Software Engineer
ByteDance2018-2023Director of Engineering
Microsoft Research2016-2018Researcher
Google2023-2023ByteDance2018-2023Microsoft Research2016-2018Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations11,433As of Oct 20, '26
citations+1,654Since last snapshot, Jun 14, '26
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