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Jul 26, 2024
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Technology to Empower Life - Jia is interested in how AI could make positive impact on everyday life. She is elected as IEEE Fellow for Leadership in Large Scale AI. She is an entrepreneur who is excited about bringing Generative AI to real world applications. She co-founded LiveX AI, where she serves as President and Chief AI Officer. She co-taught the inaugural course of Generative AI and Medicine at Stanford University, where she has served multiple roles including Advisory Board Committee to Nourish, Chief AI Fellow, RWE for Sleep Health and Adjunct Professor at the School of Medicine in the past. She was the Founding Global Head of R&D at Google Cloud AI. At Google, she oversaw the development of the full stack of AI products on Google Cloud to power solutions for diverse industries. With the passion to make more impact to our everyday life, she later became an entrepreneur, building and advising companies with award-winning platforms to solve today's greatest challenges in life. She has served as Mentor and Professor-in-Residence at StartX, advising founders/companies from Stanford/Alumni. She is the Co-founder and Chairperson of HealthUnity Corporation, a volunteer based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. She served briefly at Accenture as a part-time Chief AI Fellow for the Generative AI strategy. She also serves as an advisor to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). She is a board member of the Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose. Before joining Google, She was the Head of Research at Snap, leading the AI/AR innovation effort. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

She was the leader of the OPTIMOL team, which won the first prize in the first Semantic Robotics Vision Challenge. She was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a recognition bestowed on 100 of the world’s most promising business leaders, artists, public servants, technologists, and social entrepreneurs in 2018. In 2019, She received the Longuet-Higgins Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the AI field. Jointly with MIT, her team won the first place of the 2020 IEEE Low Power Image Recognition Challenge in both the image classification and object detection tracks. She is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI).

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