[Text/Observer Network, Zhang Jingjuan] The continuous attacks on education and science by the United States are pushing scientists and researchers away.

The Hong Kong English media South China Morning Post reported on the 29th that two informed sources said that Alex Lamb, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research New York Lab, will join the newly established College of Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University as an assistant professor in the upcoming fall semester. Lamb confirmed this news in an email.

The report stated that after obtaining a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Johns Hopkins University, Lamb pursued a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Montreal in Canada from 2015 to 2020 under the guidance of Yoshua Bengio, the winner of the 2018 Turing Award.

An article published by the WeChat official account "Artificial Intelligence Basic Research" showed that Lamb has been deeply involved in machine learning research for many years, with 9831 citations on Google Scholar and an H-index of 23.

The article mentioned that Lamb's research group plans to recruit doctoral students, master's students, and visiting students (including undergraduate interns) who will enter in the fall of 2025 and later, and will prioritize applicants with research experience in machine learning and reinforcement learning.

In addition, having publication experience at top academic conferences in the field of machine learning, such as NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR, will be a strong plus for applicants.

Lamb's research focuses on machine learning, particularly reinforcement learning and generative models. His recent research priorities include learning strategies through interaction and unsupervised exploration, learning abstract world models from rich observational data, and exploring new training methods for generative models and sequence models to improve performance in long text and uncertainty modeling.

Alex Lamb, Microsoft

The College of Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University was founded in April 2024 and is led by Yao Qizhi, a Turing Award winner and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is committed to frontier innovation research and top talent cultivation in artificial intelligence, focusing on breakthroughs in basic frontiers and cross-disciplinary empowerment, with a focus on two cutting-edge directions: "core of artificial intelligence" and "artificial intelligence+".

In July this year, the College of Artificial Intelligence of Tsinghua University released a recruitment advertisement to attract top talents from home and abroad around the world.

The report pointed out that Lamb's appointment marks one of the most notable efforts by China to recruit top American artificial intelligence scholars. Artificial intelligence is considered one of the focal points of competition between the two major economies of the United States and China, and has therefore been a key area of U.S. technology containment.

Nature survey found that over 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country.

Meanwhile, China continues to increase its investment in the AI sector. To promote high-quality development of China's artificial intelligence industry, the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund was officially established on January 17, 2025, jointly led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Finance. Following market-oriented, rule-of-law-based, and professional principles, the fund serves national strategies through equity investments.

Last week, Zhang Jianhua, deputy director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and deputy team leader of the National Artificial Intelligence Fund Preparation Group, stated at a symposium that the National Artificial Intelligence Fund places great emphasis on embodied intelligence, closely monitoring its frontier new technologies, products, and industrialization and commercialization progress. The fund will conduct investment layouts based on industry development trends and market financing needs.

He introduced that the total scale of the National Artificial Intelligence Fund is currently 60.06 billion RMB. The fund will make investment layouts around the entire artificial intelligence industry chain, covering all aspects such as computing power, algorithms, data, and empowering applications. The fund follows industry development rules and moderately invests early, small, and in cutting-edge areas.

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