Dr. Yuan (Alan) Qi is Chief AI Scientist and Vice President of Ant Group, and head of Financial Intelligence Lab of DAMO Academy .  Before joining Alibaba and Ant, he obtained his PhD from MIT and tenured associate professorship in Computer Science and Statistics from Purdue University.He previously served as associate editor of Journal of Machine Learning Research, area chair of International Conference on Machine Learning and conference chair of Chinese Congress of AI. He received Microsoft's Newton Breakthrough Research award in 2008 and USA NSF Career award in 2011. At Ant, he has led  AI teams to build AI platforms and solutions to address various financial problems such as microlending, risk control, intelligent insurance, marketing and customer service, empowering both internal and external business partners.