I am Deputy Chief Scientist and Head of NLP at Huawei Xiaoyi, leading the research and development for LLM Agents, Question Anaswer, and Search Engine. In 2026, the Xiaoyi Deep Research system ranked #1 on both Deep Research Bench and Deep Research Bench II, the two most recognized benchmarks in the field. I also led the open-source release of EvoScientist, a multi-agent self-evolving framework for autonomous scientific discovery that has attracted broad community attention.

My current focus is on building next-generation AI systems that can autonomously research, reason, and answer complex questions at scale. I hold 30+ patents and have published at top venues including ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and IEEE Transactions.

Agent

EvoScientist — Vibe Research Agent Framework

Huawei Xiaoyi Team · Open Source · 2026

A multi-agent self-evolving framework for autonomous scientific research: agents iteratively form hypotheses, design experiments, and synthesize findings — with the system continuously improving its own research strategies over time. Accompanies the Xiaoyi Deep Research system that ranked #1 globally on both Deep Research benchmarks in 2026.

Search

Xiaoyi Deep Research

Huawei Xiaoyi Team · 2026

A large-scale Deep Research system built on a multi-agent self-evolving architecture: agents autonomously decompose complex queries, retrieve and synthesize multi-source evidence, and continuously refine their own research strategies through self-evolution. Ranked #1 on both Deep Research Bench and Deep Research Bench II in 2026.

QA

Xiaoyi Question & Answer

Huawei Xiaoyi Team

A production-grade intelligent QA system powering Huawei's Xiaoyi assistant, covering open-domain question answering, knowledge-grounded dialogue, and intent-aware retrieval at scale across hundreds of millions of queries.

2017.02 — Present

Deputy Chief Scientist & Head of NLP

Huawei · Xiaoyi

Leading research on Deep Research Agents, Search-Augmented LLMs, large-scale QA, and conversational AI. The Xiaoyi Deep Research system ranked #1 globally on Deep Research Bench in 2026.

2016.04 — 2017.02

Research Scientist

Didi AI Lab

Worked on user profiling and intelligent car dispatch systems at scale.

2014.07 — 2016.04

Assistant Professor

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Developed the cloud-based ML platform BDA (Big Data Analysis), providing a web interface to build and manage machine learning pipelines.

Exploring Cross-lingual Latent Transplantation: Mutual Opportunities and Open Challenges

Y Ye, X Feng, X Feng, L Qin, Y Huang, L Huang, W Ma, Q Hong, Z Zhang, X Yan, et al.

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing · 2026

EvoIdeator: Evolving Scientific Ideas through Checklist-Grounded Reinforcement Learning

A Sauter, Y Zhao, J Urbani, W Hu, Z Meng, L Zhou, X Yan, Y Lyu.

arXiv:2603.21728 · 2026

EvoScientist: Towards Multi-Agent Evolving AI Scientists for End-to-End Scientific Discovery

Y Lyu, X Zhang, X Yi, Y Zhao, S Guo, W Hu, J Piotrowski, J Kaliski, X Yan, et al.

arXiv:2603.08127 · 2026

Knowledge-Augmented Question Error Correction for Chinese Question Answer System with QuestionRAG

L Qiu, T Li, S Mao, N Yang, X Yan.

EMNLP 2025

CC-TUNING: A Cross-Lingual Connection Mechanism for Improving Joint Multilingual Supervised Fine-Tuning

Y Ye, X Feng, Z Yuan, X Feng, L Qin, L Huang, W Ma, Y Huang, Z Zhang, X Yan, et al.

ACL 2025