Tsinghua University recruits top American AI researcher

China’s Tsinghua University has recruited a prominent American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher to join its newly established AI institution, underscoring the intensifying competition between China and the United States for top industry talent, writes Ben Jiang for the South China Morning Post.

Alex Lamb, a senior researcher at the New York lab of Microsoft Research, will be joining Beijing-based Tsinghua University’s College of AI as an assistant professor in the coming fall term, according to two people familiar with the matter. Lamb confirmed in an email to the Post that he was joining.

Lamb’s profile on the professional social network LinkedIn still lists his employer as Microsoft. Tsinghua did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday.
Full report on the SCMP site