Alex Lamb, a senior researcher at the New York lab of Microsoft Research, will be joining Beijing-based Tsinghua University’s College of AI (CAI) as an assistant professor in the coming fall term, according to two people familiar with the matter. Lamb confirmed in an email to the Post that he was joining.
Lamb’s appointment marks one of China’s most high-profile efforts to recruit top American AI scholars at a time when Washington is ramping up measures to restrict funding and exports to the country. AI has been a particular focal point for Washington’s tech curbs, as it is considered a key area of strategic competition between the two countries.
After obtaining a bachelor of science in applied mathematics and computer science at Johns Hopkins University, Lamb pursued a doctorate in computer science at the University of Montreal in Canada from 2015 to 2020, under the guidance of Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio.
