PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Chong Ruan

Chong Ruan is an AI researcher and chief scientist at DeepRoute.ai. He previously led research and development at DeepSeek. His coauthored work includes the DeepSeek-V2 and DeepSeek-V3 reports on mixture-of-experts language models, and papers on model reasoning and Lean theorem proving. In 2026, he presented DeepRoute.ai’s Foundation Model for intelligent driving and gave a keynote on AI safety for autonomous driving.

Now at
DeepRoute.ai
Works
20

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026. Citations and h-index are hidden because this OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mix in other authors.

Timeline

  1. 2024

    The DeepSeek-V2 model

    In 2024, he coauthors DeepSeek-V2, a 236-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that uses Multi-head Latent Attention and DeepSeekMoE.

  2. 2024

    DeepSeek-V3 technical report

    In 2024, he coauthors the DeepSeek-V3 technical report, which presents a 671-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model trained on 14.8 trillion tokens.

  3. 2025

    Reasoning with reinforcement learning

    In 2025, he coauthors DeepSeek-R1, a study of reasoning in language models. The paper describes how pure reinforcement learning can develop patterns such as self-reflection, verification, and dynamic strategy adaptation.

  4. 2025

    Proof-assistant feedback

    At ICLR 2025, he coauthors DeepSeek-Prover-V1.5, a paper on proof-assistant feedback, reinforcement learning, and Monte-Carlo tree search.

  5. 2025

    Formal theorem proving in Lean 4

    In April 2025, he coauthors DeepSeek-Prover-V2, an open-source model for formal theorem proving in Lean 4. Its training pipeline uses DeepSeek-V3 to divide complex problems into subgoals.

  6. As of October 2026

    Chief Scientist at DeepRoute.ai

    As of October 2026, he is chief scientist at DeepRoute.ai and gives a keynote on AI safety at the September 2026 ECCV workshop. In April 2026, he presents the company’s Foundation Model for advanced intelligent driving. Earlier in his career, he leads research and development at DeepSeek and works as a core researcher in multimodal AI.

Career

  1. NowDeepRoute.aiChief Scientist
  2. DeepSeekResearch and Development Lead

From the biography.

  1. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labsIncludes DeepSeek. The median h-index is 53 at universities and 19 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes DeepSeek. 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 DeepSeek. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  4. Google alumni founded or led 87 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes DeepSeek. We trace 212 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 223 career moves between the labs.

Sources and credits

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  1. DeepSeek-V2: A Strong, Economical, and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Language Model arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. DeepSeek-Prover-V1.5: Harnessing Proof Assistant Feedback for Reinforcement Learning and Monte-Carlo Tree Search proceedings.iclr.cc. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. DeepSeek-Prover-V2: Advancing Formal Mathematical Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Subgoal Decomposition arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. DeepRoute.ai CEO Maxwell Zhou: Aiming to Become the AI Infrastructure of the Physical World prnewswire.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Safe and Defensive Autonomous Driving Workshop · ECCV 2026 sdad.cc. Checked 19 October 2026.