Huawei Pangu Large Model leader Wang Yunhe has resigned and is reported to be starting a company called Agent
Extracted from Quantum Bit
Wang Yunhe interned at Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab while pursuing his PhD at Peking University and officially joined after graduating with his doctorate in 2018.
During the 8 years, Wang Yunhe held positions as a senior engineer, chief engineer, and technical expert, and was promoted to head of the Algorithm Application Department at the end of 2021. In 2025, he took over from Yao Jun, becoming the director of the Noah's Ark Lab, responsible for the development of the Pangu large model.
From Huawei intern to a 90s lab director
Wang Yunhe was born in 1991. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology and later pursued a PhD at Peking University.
During his PhD, Wang Yunhe specialized in artificial intelligence under the guidance of Professors Xu Chao and Tao Dacheng.
In 2017, he interned at Noah's Ark Lab, focusing on machine learning and computer vision.
After earning his doctorate, he officially joined Noah's Ark Lab and remained there until announcing his resignation.
In terms of academic achievements, according to Google Scholar, Wang Yunhe has 33109 citations and an h-index of 68.
The paper he collaborated on with Professor Xu Chao's team, "Image Processing GNN: Breaking Rigidity in Super-Resolution," was nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at CVPR 2024.
This paper proposed a super-resolution imaging algorithm that embeds graph neural networks, achieving the then SOTA in super-resolution imaging experiments.
The first author of the paper is Tian Yuchuan, a PhD student from the 2022 cohort at the School of Intelligence, Peking University, while Wang Yunhe is the corresponding author of the paper.
The paper with the highest citation count is "Ghostnet: More features from cheap operations," co-authored with Han Kai, Tian Qi, and others.
This paper addresses the challenge of deploying convolutional neural networks on embedded devices with limited memory and computing resources.
Wang Yunhe has also received Huawei's "Top Ten Inventions" award, which aims to reward inventions or patented technologies that have the potential to create new product lines, become important commercial features, and bring significant commercial value to Huawei and the industry. This award-winning achievement has also been applied in China's Tianyan FAST, assisting in the discovery of hundreds of fast radio burst samples.
After joining Huawei, Wang Yunhe's promotion path has been quite smooth. Before becoming the head of the Algorithm Application Department in 2021, he was basically promoted every year. In 2025, after the internal transfer of former Noah's Ark Lab director Yao Jun, Wang Yunhe, a "90s kid," took over as the director of Noah's Ark Lab, becoming the head of the Pangu large model.
In his resignation announcement on social media, Wang Yunhe did not disclose his next destination.
Quantum Bit has learned that with this departure, Wang Yunhe will embark on an entrepreneurial journey with Agent and is already conducting underwater financing.