Yu Cheng

About

Prof. Yu Cheng joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024. He is also the Chief Scientist at Kunlun Wanwei Technology and Skywork AI. His research interests specialize in efficient/sparse architectures, model compression, and multimodal learning. From 2018 to 2023, he was a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, and led several teams to productize the aforementioned techniques for Microsoft-OpenAI models (Copilot, DALL-E-2, ChatGPT, GPT-4). From 2023 to 2025, he was the Chief Scientist at Minimax. Together with Minimax and Skywork AI, he delivered many GenAI models: Minimax abab6.5/7, M1, Hailuo Video, Skywork SuperAgent, Skyweels and Matrix-Game. Prof. Cheng serves as a Senior Area Chair for NeurIPS and ICML and as an Area Chair for CVPR, ICLR, ACL and EMNLP. He also