PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Zhipeng Zhou

Zhipeng Zhou is a researcher whose work spans conformal geometry, 3D vision, point-cloud learning and large language models. He studied at the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2013 to 2018 and coauthored papers on conformal metrics and point-cloud methods. At Alibaba DAMO Academy, he coauthored a 2023 geometry-coding paper that introduces PCNet184, then coauthored the 2025 Qwen3 technical report. As of October 2026, his research includes reinforcement learning for control and finite-data stability guarantees.

Now at
Alibaba
Works
91

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Timeline

  1. 2013–2018

    Doctoral study at CAS

    From 2013 to 2018, he is a PhD student at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  2. 2017

    Conformal metrics and bubble trees

    In 2017, he coauthors a study with Yuxiang Li on conformal metric sequences with integral-bounded scalar curvature. It uses the 3-circle theorem and the John-Nirenberg inequality to study bubble-tree convergence.

  3. 2019

    Geometry Sharing Network

    In 2019, he coauthors Geometry Sharing Network (GS-Net), which uses an Eigen-Graph to group distant points and build point descriptors with holistic context.

  4. 2020

    A radius in conformal geometry

    He coauthors a study with Guodong Wei and Yuxiang Li in 2020 on the John-Nirenberg radius and collapsing in conformal geometry.

  5. 2021

    PC-HMR for human-mesh recovery

    At Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, he coauthors PC-HMR in 2021, using 3D pose to calibrate human-mesh recovery from images and videos.

  6. November 2023

    Point-cloud coding and PCNet184

    At Alibaba DAMO Academy, he coauthors a geometry-coding paper in November 2023. The paper introduces PCNet184, a dataset with 184 categories and 51,915 synthetic objects.

  7. 2025

    The Qwen3 technical report

    The 2025 Qwen3 technical report presents dense and mixture-of-experts models; he coauthors the report, and the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud develops the series.

  8. As of October 2026

    Reinforcement learning for control

    As of October 2026, his research includes reinforcement learning for control. He coauthors a 2026 paper that presents finite-data probabilistic stability guarantees using Lyapunov’s method.

Career

  1. From 2023Alibaba
  2. From 2021Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education

  1. 2018Chinese Academy of SciencesPhD

From the biography.

  1. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes Alibaba. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.
  2. Universities (31%) and startups and other companies (25%) employ the largest shares of 2020–2026 entrantsIncludes Alibaba. Among 819 people whose first recorded role started in 2020–2026 and who have a known current organization, 60% work in commercial sectors (25% at startups and other companies, 23% at frontier labs and 13% at big tech, with 9 in two), and 31% work at universities, compared with 66% for earlier entrants.
  3. The top 10 organizations employed 22% of people shaping AI in 2025: 51% of company researchers and 21% of university researchersIncludes Alibaba. We estimate the share of people shaping AI who worked at the top 10 organizations each year from 1955 to 2025, comparing concentration across companies, universities, and institutes and labs.
  4. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Alibaba. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Zhipeng Zhou — Lacuna lacuna.tiptreesystems.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Conformal metric sequences with integral-bounded scalar curvature arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Geometry Sharing Network for 3D Point Cloud Classification and Segmentation arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. Li Yuxiang-Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University math.tsinghua.edu.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. PC-HMR: Pose Calibration for 3D Human Mesh Recovery from 2D Images/Videos ojs.aaai.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Towards robustness and generalization of point cloud representation: A geometry coding method and a large-scale object-level dataset sciopen.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. Qwen3 Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. GitHub - QwenLM/Qwen3: Qwen3 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. · GitHub github.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. Reinforcement Learning for Control with Probabilistic Stability Guarantee: A Finite-Sample Approach arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.