Encore: Inside China's AI boom: an American expert's view

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  Discussion keeps the world turning.

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  This is Roundtable.

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  From the heart of Beijing to the edges of the global stage, you're at Roundtable.

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  I'm Niu Heng Lin.

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  On today's show, we continue to present our special series, Generation Global, Navigating a Changing World.

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  In today's episode, Roundtable's Yu Shun had the chance to speak with Alex Lam,

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  an AI professor from Tsinghua University.

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  Having worked across North America and now based in China,

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  Alex offers a rare insider's view into how the global AI race is really unfolding.

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  Please enjoy.

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  Today, I am joined by Alex Lam, assistant professor at the College of AI Tsinghua University.

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  And Alex, I know you studied and worked in North America, but can you please also introduce yourself to your listeners?

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  Thank you.

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  I'm Alex Lam.

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  I grew up in Western Maryland in a town called Mount Airy in the United States.

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  I actually grew up on a dairy farm.

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  I did my undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University.

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  Then I spent a few years developing demand forecasting systems at Amazon.

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  And then I did my PhD in deep learning at the University of Montreal.

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  I spent a few years doing reinforcement learning research at Microsoft Research New York City.

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