Dayiheng Liu

Named head of the Qwen large language models in September 2026, after the March departure of Tech Lead Junyang Lin and CTO Jingren Zhou’s June move to chief scientist. A core contributor to Qwen models since joining Alibaba in 2021, previously leading pretraining. Listed as “Head of Qwen LLM Project” among the speakers at the September 2026 Apsara Conference, alongside Chair Joe Tsai and CEO Eddie Wu.