Nan DUAN (段楠)

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Dr. Nan Duan is the Vice President of JD.COM and the Deputy Director of JD Future Academy, where he oversees and leads foundation model research in language, audio, vision, and embodied AI. Prior to this, he served as the Technical Fellow at StepFun and as the Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Duan is an adjunct professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the University of Science and Technology of China, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Tianjin University. His research spans natural language processing, code intelligence, multimodal foundation models, and AI agents. He has authored over 200 research papers in top-tier conferences and journals, accumulating more than 40,000 citations (h-index 85+) and holds over 20 patents. In 2019, he was named the CCF-NLPCC Distinguished Young Scientist for his contributions to NLP, and in 2023, he was listed among the DeepTech Intelligent Computing Innovators in China for his work on AI foundation models.

段楠博士，现任京东集团副总裁、京东探索研究院副院长，领导语言、语音、视觉和具身智能领域的基础模型研究。此前，他曾任阶跃星辰Technical Fellow和微软亚洲研究院资深首席研究员。段博士是中国科学技术大学、西安交通大学和天津大学的兼职教授及博士生导师。他的研究兴趣包括自然语言处理、代码智能、多模态基础模型和AI智能体等。他在顶级会议和期刊上发表了超过200篇研究论文，累积引用超过40,000次(h-index 85+)，拥有20多项专利。2019年，他因在自然语言处理领域的贡献被评为CCF-NLPCC杰出青年科学家，2023年，他因在人工智能基础模型方面的贡献被列为DeepTech中国智能计算创新人物之一。

Highlight

• JoyAI-Echo-1.5 (Technical Report, 2026), SoTA audio-video world model.
• JoyAI-Video-Edit (Technical Report, 2026), real-time streaming video editing model.
• JoyAI-VL-Interaction (Technical Report, 2026), real-time vision-language interaction intelligence.
• JoyAI-Echo (Technical Report, 2026), minute-level multi-shot audio-video generation model.
• JoyAI-Image-Edit (Technical Report, 2026), a unified image understanding and generation model with spatial intelligence.
• Step-Video-T2V (Technical Report, 2025), 30B SoTA text-to-video model.
• scGPT (Nature Methods, 2024), single-cell Generative Pre-trained Transformer.
• AGIEval (NAACL, 2024), benchmark for AGI evaluation.
• Not All Tokens Are What You Need (NeurIPS, 2024), Best Paper Runner-Up at NeurIPS 2024.
• Visual ChatGPT (Preprint, 2023), pioneer work in AI Agent, obtained 34k+ GitHub stars.
• VL-InterpreT (CVPR, 2022), Best Demo Award at CVPR 2022.
• NUWA-Infinity (NeurIPS, 2022), pioneer work in video generation model, reviewed by Bill Gates.
• NUWA(女娲) (ECCV, 2022), pioneer work in video generation model, cited by OpenAI Sora.
• CodeXGLUE (NeurIPS, 2021), benchmark for code understanding and generation.
• CodeBERT (EMNLP, 2020), pioneer work in code foundation model, cited by OpenAI Codex.
• Unicoder-VL (AAAI, 2020), the 1st multimodal pre-trained model deployed in Microsoft Bing for top-tier languages.
• Unicoder (EMNLP, 2019), the 1st multilingual pre-trained model deployed in Microsoft Bing for 100+ languages.

Academic Service & Award

• Adjunct Ph.D. Supervisor at Xi’an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学), 2023-present.
• Adjunct Ph.D. Supervisor at University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学), 2022-present.

• Adjunct Professor at Tianjin University (天津大学), 2020-2022.

• Program Committee Chair of NLPCC, 2023.
• Evaluation Chair of NLPCC, 2019/2018.
• Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review (ARR), 2022-present.
• Senior Area Chair/Area Chair of NeurIPS/ACL/EMNLP/NAACL/SIGKDD.
• Standing Reviewer of TACL, 2020-present.

• Program Committee Member of ACL/EMNLP/NAACL/COLING/NeurIPS/ICLR/CVPR/AAAI/SIGKDD/IJCAI/etc.

• Senior Member of IEEE, 2025.
• Distinguished Member of CCF, 2021.
• Executive Member of China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG), 2025-present.
• Executive Member of CCF Technical Committee of NLP, 2018-present.
• Member of CCF Committee on Academic Affairs, 2020-present.
• Member of CIPS Technical Committee of NLG, 2021-present.

• Secretary of CCF Committee on Terminology, 2016-2018.

• AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP, 2025.
• World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford, 2022-present.
• The Intelligent Computing Innovators China (中国智能计算科技创新人物), 2023.
• CCF-NLPCC Distinguished Young Scientist Award (CCF-NLPCC青年科学家奖), 2019.

• CCF Distinguished Speaker (CCF杰出演讲者), 2021/2020/2017.

• NeurIPS Best Paper Runner-Up Award, 2024.
• CVPR Best Demo Award, 2022.

Patent

• Code Execution with Pre-trained Language Models, 2023.
• Pretraining for Automating Code Review Activities, 2022.
• SimANS: Simple Ambiguous Negative Sampling for Dense Text Retrieval, 2022.
• Distilling Knowledge from Metric to Ranker and Retriever, 2022.
• Retrieval Augmented Code Completion, 2022.
• Sentence representation generation for cross-lingual retrieval, 2022.
• Code Bug Detection, 2021.
• Performing multiple tasks with continual adaptation, 2021.
• Resource-Efficient Attention in a Neural Network, 2021.
• Interpretable Bug Detection for Codes with Structural Attention Constraints, 2021.
• Generation of data models for predicting data, 2020.
• Knowledge injection model for generative commonsense reasoning, 2020.
• A look-ahead strategy for trie-based beam search in generative retrieval, 2020.
• Transformer-Based Neural Network including a Mask Attention Network, 2020.
• Fact checking based on semantic graphs, 2019.
• Cross-lingual task training, 2019.
• Text generation with customizable style, 2019.
• Matching based intent understanding with transfer learning, 2019.
• VideoChat, 2018.
• Natural language question answering, 2018.
• Assertion-based question answering, 2017.
• Generation of text from structured data, 2017.
• Conversation oriented machine-user interaction, 2016.