Yulong Ao

Head of AI Framework Development at BAAI

Yulong Ao is the Head of AI Framework Development at BAAI, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Peking University, and holds a Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He currently leads the development of the large-model training and inference framework FlagScale and the unified communication library FlagCX, both key components of the open-source unified AI software stack FlagOS. He pioneered industry-ready solutions for heterogeneous large-model training and inference across diverse compute architectures. His long-term research focuses on distributed systems and performance optimization in artificial intelligence, high-performance computing (HPC), and scientific computing. Previously, he worked at Huawei and Baidu, contributing to core technologies in large-model systems. In 2016, he jointly received China’s first ACM Gordon Bell Award. He has published over ten papers in top international conferences and journals, holds multiple domestic and international patents, and has participated in the formulation of national and international standards for operator interfaces and communication libraries.