BEIJING, Sep. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Jianpu
Technology Inc. ("Jianpu," or the "Company") (NYSE: JT), a
leading independent open platform for discovery and recommendation
of financial products in China,
today announced the appointment of Mr. Yu
Zou as its Chief Scientist. Mr. Zou will be directly in
charge of Jianpu's Rong360 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research
Institute.
"We are delighted that Yu has joined Jianpu as our Chief
Scientist. He has been a leading expert with extraordinary
knowledge and leadership skills in AI," said Mr. David Ye, Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of Jianpu. "His experience and expertise will be
invaluable to the next phase of Jianpu's technology-driven growth
as we further explore the AI applications and capabilities in
financial service sector surrounding a series of technologies such
as machine learning, natural language processing, as well as image
recognition and voice interaction. We're confident that Yu will
lead our AI Research Institute in all efforts to provide
sophisticated products empowered by AI and Big Data to financial
institutions, support in-depth AI applications in user verification
(KYC), fraud detection, risk modeling, precision marketing,
intelligent customer service and loan servicing, and optimize our
risk management service and solution capabilities."
Before joining Jianpu, Mr. Zou served as a senior director of
Research and Development (R&D) at JD.com Inc. (JD), leading its
personalization and sorting platform and NLP R&D departments as
well as a number of JD's AI algorithm projects. Prior to that, Mr.
Zou held senior research positions at Microsoft and Yahoo!. At
Microsoft Research Asia, Mr. Zou was responsible for the study of
handwritten mathematical formula recognition technology, which was
first introduced in the world in 2005. The digital ink technology
that he helped develop has been successfully incorporated into
multiple Microsoft products. During his tenure at Yahoo!, Mr. Zou
served as the head of Yahoo Labs at its Beijing R&D Center,
where he was responsible for the in-depth optimization of news flow
recommendation algorithms and search ads algorithm for Yahoo!
portal and news App, was also instrumental in helping to build the
core technical team for Yahoo! Beijing R&D Center. Mr. Zou
received a bachelor's degree in Computer and Mathematics and a
master's degree in Computer Sciences both from Peking
University.
About Jianpu Technology Inc.
Jianpu Technology Inc. is a leading independent open platform
for discovery and recommendation of financial products in
China. By leveraging its deep data
insights and proprietary technology, Jianpu provides users with
personalized search results and recommendations that are tailored
to each user's particular financial needs and credit profile. The
Company also enables financial service providers with sales and
marketing solutions to reach and serve their target customers more
effectively through online and mobile channels and enhance their
competitiveness by providing them with tailored data, risk
management and end-to-end solutions. The Company is committed to
maintaining an independent open platform, which allows it to serve
the needs of users and financial service providers impartially. For
more information, please visit http://ir.jianpu.ai.
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For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Jianpu Technology Inc.
Oscar Chen
Tel: +86 (10) 6242-7068
E-mail: IR@rong360.com
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Ross Warner
Tel: +86 (10) 5730-6202
E-mail: jianpu@tpg-ir.com
In the United States:
The Piacente Group, Inc.
Brandi Piacente
Tel: +1-212-481-2050
E-mail: jianpu@tpg-ir.com
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