PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Xiangyu Zhang

Xiangyu Zhang is a researcher and co-author of Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition, the residual network paper. He is chief scientist at StepFun. His degrees include a bachelor's from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2012 and a PhD in 2017 from Xi'an Jiaotong University and Microsoft Research Asia. The paper's ensemble won first place in the ILSVRC 2015 classification task, and in 2026 the Longuet-Higgins Prize honored the paper. Alongside ResNet, he co-authored ShuffleNet and RepVGG, and in 2023 he shared the Future Science Prize in mathematics and computer science.

Timeline

  1. 2012–2017

    Degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong

    He earns a bachelor's degree at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2012. In 2017, he completes a PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University and Microsoft Research Asia.

  2. 2015–2016

    The residual network paper

    Co-written with three colleagues, the residual network paper reports an ensemble that wins first place in the ILSVRC 2015 classification task.

  3. 2018

    ShuffleNet for mobile devices

    ShuffleNet, an extremely efficient convolutional network for mobile devices, appears at CVPR in 2018 with him as one of four authors.

  4. 2021

    RepVGG, a VGG-style network

    RepVGG, whose inference-time body is a plain stack of 3x3 convolutions and ReLU, appears at CVPR in 2021 with him as a co-author.

  5. 2023

    A Future Science Prize

    In 2023, he shares the Future Science Prize in mathematics and computer science with Kaiming He, Shaoqing Ren and Jian Sun, for deep residual learning.

  6. 2026

    A Longuet-Higgins Prize

    Among the CVPR 2016 papers receiving the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2026, selected by the IEEE Computer Society, is the residual network paper.

  7. As of October 2026

    Chief scientist at StepFun

    In 2026, Caixin lists him as chief scientist at StepFun, alongside CEO Jiang Daxin and CTO Zhu Yibo.

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  1. Announcement of 2023 Future Science Prize Eight Scientists Honoured with 2023 Future Science Prize - Home-Future Science Prize futureprize.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. CVPR 2016 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. CVPR 2018 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. CVPR 2021 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Awards computer.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. In Profile: Megvii Co-Founder Is Back Riding the Latest AI Wave - Caixin Global caixinglobal.com. Checked 14 October 2026.