Sun Jian, the 45-year-old chief scientist of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm Megvii Technology, died on Tuesday of a sudden illness, which the company did not specify.

Sun, a former Microsoft researcher with years of expertise in computer vision and computational photography, joined the Beijing-based start-up as the chief scientist and managing director of research in 2016. While at the company, he led the development of ShuffleNet, a neural network that works efficiently on mobile devices, and Brain++

Photo: A staff member speaks in front of a display demonstrating the facial recognition system of Chinese artificial intelligence firm Megvii during an organised media tour at the Zhongguancun National Innovation Demonstration Zone Exhibition Center in Beijing on February 10, 2022. Photo: Reuters

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