PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Binyuan Hui

Binyuan Hui is an AI researcher whose work spans text-to-SQL, large language models, and software-development agents. He studied computer science at Northeastern University in Shenyang, earned a master's degree at Tianjin University, and received a Rising Star award at the 2022 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. His research moves from context-dependent database systems into BigCode, OpenHands, and Alibaba's Qwen models. He coauthored technical reports for Qwen2.5-Coder, Qwen3, and Qwen3-Coder-Next. As of October 2026, he leads AI-coding algorithms at a major domestic internet company after leaving Alibaba in January 2026.

Now at
Alibaba
Works
108
Citations
2,077
h-index
23
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. By 2022

    A university education

    Born in 1999, he enters Northeastern University in Shenyang at age 15 to study computer science. He earns a master's degree at Tianjin University after winning first prize at the International Mathematical Contest in Modelling.

  2. 2021–2022

    Text-to-SQL and a Rising Star award

    He coauthors a 2021 AAAI paper that models context-dependent semantic parsing with a dynamic graph. In 2022, he coauthors STAR, a SQL-guided pretraining framework for context-dependent text-to-SQL, and receives a Rising Star award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference.

  3. July 2023

    Joining BigCode

    In July 2023, he joins BigCode and focuses his research on autonomous coding models.

  4. February 2024

    A Qwen researcher's day

    By February 2024, he is a natural-language-processing researcher on Alibaba's Qwen team and shares a typical workday.

  5. July 2024

    OpenDevin becomes OpenHands

    In July 2024, he coauthors OpenHands, a platform for AI software developers as generalist agents, formerly known as OpenDevin.

  6. September 2024

    The Qwen2.5-Coder report

    In September 2024, he is first author of the Qwen2.5-Coder technical report, which introduces six code-focused model sizes built on Qwen2.5.

  7. May 2025–February 2026

    Qwen3 reasoning and coding reports

    In May 2025, he coauthors the Qwen3 technical report on models with dense and mixture-of-experts architectures. In February 2026, he coauthors the Qwen3-Coder-Next report, which presents an open-weight model specialized for coding agents.

  8. As of October 2026

    Leading AI-coding algorithms

    As of October 2026, he leads AI-coding algorithms at a major domestic internet company after leaving Alibaba in January 2026.

Career

  1. 2021–2026AlibabaNatural-language-processing researcher

Education

  1. Northeastern University
  2. Tianjin UniversityMaster's degree

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Qwen Technical Report2023 · 331 citationsWith Bowen Yu, Fei Huang and Rui Men
  2. Can LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs2023 · neural information processing systems · 194 citationsWith Fei Huang
  3. Qwen3 Technical Report2025 · 147 citationsWith Baosong Yang, Beichen Zhang, Chengen Huang, Fei Huang, Le Yu and Rui Men
  4. Multiview Deep Subspace Clustering Networks2024 · IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics · 136 citations
  5. Qwen2.5 Technical Report2024 · 122 citationsWith Baosong Yang, Beichen Zhang, Fei Huang, Le Yu, Rui Men and Zihan Qiu

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. Google alumni founded or led 81 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Alibaba. We trace 194 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 202 career moves between the labs.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes Alibaba. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Alibaba. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Tianjin University. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Meet the young talent scaling Alibaba's AI future at Tongyi Lab, developer of Qwen models tech.yahoo.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Dynamic Hybrid Relation Exploration Network for Cross-Domain Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing mlanthology.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. Binyuan Hui - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Binyuan Hui huybery.github.io. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Alibaba staffer offers a glimpse into building LLMs in China techcrunch.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  7. Qwen2.5-Coder Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  8. Qwen3 Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  9. Qwen3-Coder-Next Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  10. Former Alibaba Qwen Code Lead Joins a Major Domestic Tech Firm to Head AI Coding aicoin.com. Checked 18 October 2026.