Qingsong Wen, Adjunct Professor @ ECNU
Head of AI & Chief Scientist @ Squirrel Ai Learning
PhD Supervisor @ University of Oxford
Forbes Top 100 Most Influential Chinese Elites
Research Area：LLM & AI Agent, AI for Time Series, AI for Education
Email：qingsongedu@gmail.com
Homepage:https://sites.google.com/site/qingsongwen8
Qingsong Wen is an Adjunct Professor at the Shanghai AI-Finance School of East China Normal University (ECNU), Chief Scientist and Head of AI Research at Squirrel AI Learning, and a PhD Supervisor at the University of Oxford. He previously held key technical leadership roles at top global technology companies including Alibaba, Qualcomm, and Marvell. He received his Master’s and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
His research interests span machine learning, data mining, and signal processing, with a particular focus on AI for Time Series, AI for Education, Large Language Models and AI Agent. He has published more than 150 papers in premier AI conferences and journals, including multiple Oral and Spotlight papers at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, and AAAI. Several of his works recognized as the IJCAI most influential paper, and he has won the AAAI Innovative Applications Award multiple times.
He currently serves as Chair of the IEEE Task Force on AI for Time Series & Spatio-Temporal Data and Vice Chair of the INNS AI for Education Section. He has long served as an Area Chair for leading AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, IJCAI, and ICASSP. He is also an Associate Editor for top journals, includingIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (Impact Factor 20.8),IEEE Signal Processing Letters, andNeurocomputing. He was selected as one of theTop 100 Most Influential Chinese Elites byForbes China.
Recent Publications：
[1] Yaxuan Kong, Yiyuan Yang, Yoontae Hwang, Wenjie Du, Stefan Zohren, Zhangyang Wang, Ming Jin, Qingsong Wen, "Time-MQA: Time Series Multi-Task Question Answering with Context Enhancement," ACL 2025. (ACL Main)
[2] Tianlong Xu, YiFan Zhang, Zhendong Chu, Shen Wang, Qingsong Wen, "AI-Driven Virtual Teacher for Enhanced Educational Efficiency: Leveraging Large Pretrain Models for Autonomous Error Analysis and Correction," AAAI 2025. (AAAI/IAAI 2025 Innovative Application Award)
[3] Miao Yu, Fanci Meng, Xinyun Zhou, Shilong Wang, Junyuan Mao, Linsey Pang, Tianlong Chen, Kun Wang, Xinfeng Li, Yongfeng Zhang, Bo An, Qingsong Wen, "A Survey on Trustworthy LLM Agents: Threats and Countermeasures," KDD 2025.
[4] Jiaxi Hu, Yongqi Pan, Jusen Du, Disen Lan, Xiaqiang Tang, Qingsong Wen, Yuxuan Liang, Weigao Sun, "Improving Nonlinear RNN with Closed-loop Control," NeurIPS 2025. (NeurIPS Spotlight, Top 3.5%)
[5] Xiaoming Shi, Shiyu Wang, Yuqi Nie, Dianqi Li, Zhou Ye, Qingsong Wen, Ming Jin, "Time-MoE: Billion-Scale Time Series Foundation Models with Mixture of Experts," (ICLR Spotlight, Top 5%)
[6] Shikai Fang, Qingsong Wen, Yingtao Luo, Shandian Zhe, Liang Sun, "BayOTIDE: Bayesian Online Multivariate Time Series Imputation with Functional Decomposition," ICML 2024. (ICML Spotlight, Top 3.5%)
[7] Qingsong Wen, Tian Zhou, Chaoli Zhang, Weiqi Chen, Ziqing Ma, Junchi Yan, Liang Sun, "Transformers in Time Series: A Survey", IJCAI 2023. (Most Influential IJCAI’23 Paper)
Recent Awards：
2025 Forbes Top 100 Most Influential Chinese Elites
2025AAAIInnovative Application Award
Education：
PhD,Georgia Institute of Technology
