Founders & executives
Robin Li
Co-founder and CEO of Baidu; built China's first search engine and its Ernie models.
b. 1968🇨🇳China李彦宏Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, Baidu
Patented RankDex, a link-analysis ranking method, before Google filed PageRank. Founded Baidu in 2000 and pushed it into deep learning early, well before the current wave.
Known for
BaiduErnie / WenxinRankDex
2 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 2000–now26 yrsBaiduCo-founder, Chairman & CEO
- 1997–19992 yrsInfoseekStaff engineer
0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first
No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.
LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.
Worked alongsideco-founders and close collaborators
More in Founders & executives
Portrait, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Roles and dates are drawn from public professional records. Where a current role is listed, it reflects the most recent information available and may have changed.