Han Hu
Also known as Hu Han, 胡瀚
Han Hu is a researcher who co-authored Swin Transformer, a vision Transformer that won the Marr Prize at ICCV 2021. He earned a doctorate at Tsinghua University in 2014 and joined Microsoft Research Asia in December 2016. MIT Technology Review included him on its 2022 Innovators Under 35 list. He joined Tencent in early 2025 and submitted his resignation in July 2026 to start his own business. As of October 2026, he is the founder of Winverse AI, a startup.
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- Winverse AI
- Works
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- Citations
- 58,893
- h-index
- 37
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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2008–2014
Doctorate at Tsinghua University
He earns a bachelor's degree at Tsinghua University in 2008 and a doctorate in 2014 under Jie Zhou. His thesis wins the China Association of Artificial Intelligence doctoral dissertation award.
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2012–2013
Visiting student in Pennsylvania
From October 2012 to April 2013 he works as a visiting student at the University of Pennsylvania under Jianbo Shi.
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December 2016
Joining Microsoft Research Asia
He joins Microsoft Research Asia in December 2016, after working at Baidu Research's Institute of Deep Learning.
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2021
Swin Transformer's Marr Prize
He co-authors Swin Transformer, which wins the Marr Prize at ICCV in 2021.
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2022
Named to Innovators Under 35
MIT Technology Review includes him on its Innovators Under 35 list in 2022, for making machines see the visual world in the same way they understand language.
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2025–2026
Joining Tencent's Hunyuan unit
He joins Tencent in early 2025, after working as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. There he heads multimodal understanding in the Hunyuan unit.
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July 2026
Resigning to start a business
In July 2026 he submits his resignation to start his own business.
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As of October 2026
Founding Winverse AI
He founds Winverse AI, a startup, after serving as technical head of Tencent Hunyuan.
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