SuperDev@SuperAI
🔍 During SuperAI 2026, we are creating a purely technical session called SuperDev.
It is designed for AI developers engaged in research, scientific exploration, and frontier development.
Here you will find the most hardcore technical talks, together with core developers and researchers from the world's top universities and major tech companies — discussing the most cutting-edge AI directions and sparking new ideas.
Agenda:
3:00-3:45 Register and warm up
3:45 - 5:00 Speaker Sharing
5:00-5:30 Networking
Speaker:
Andrew Du
CTO of Infron.ai
Dr. Xiao Zhang (Francis)
founder of zCloak.AI, holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is a guest lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS). From 2024 to 2025, he served as the technical lead for the MAS pilot project DESFT. He has participated in two EU research programs (FP6 and FP7), published over 20 peer-reviewed papers, and holds 7 patents. His current research focuses on building dependable AI solutions powered by cryptography and confidential computing.
Dr. Zhifei Xie
Author of Mini-Omni 1/2/Reasoner, Audio-Reasoner, Audio Interaction Model, Mega-ASR, and Pask. Founder of Pask.ai. 8,000+ stars on GitHub. Focused on interactive multimodal models, including interaction, robustness, memory, and proactivity.
Dr. Benquan Wang (Derek)
Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) in Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence and Optics from NTU, supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) Scholarship, and a B.S. in Physics from Jilin University, where he received the Dean Scholarship, the highest undergraduate honor, in 2020. His research sits at the intersection of AI and optical physics, with a focus on advancing semiconductor manufacturing technologies including electronic design automation (EDA), precision optical metrology, and computational lithography. He has published over 15 peer-reviewed papers across top-tier venues including CVPR, eLights, and Communications Physics. His CVPR 2025 paper introduced the first optical imaging dataset and AI benchmark for semiconductor inspection beyond the diffraction limit, recognized among the Best of CVPR 2025 event. As co-founder of LightPico, a startup commercializing AI-driven semiconductor metrology technology at the picometer scale, he has contributed to the foundational body of work underlying the emerging field: "The Birth of Picophotonics".
Max Liu
Build@Lobehub（The Next-level Agent). Dropped out of undergraduate studies at UoA, Ex. CMO at Marswave (0–$3M ARR), researcher at a China USD fund, head of talent at Sapient, AI
more TBD..
🟡 What to Expect
Cutting-Edge Technical Sharing
We will invite the most influential core researchers and technical experts in the global AI field to share first-hand, unpublished research results, technical breakthroughs, and engineering practices.Precision Networking
An exclusive exchange circle built for the AI research and technical community, enabling attendees to connect with peer experts, facilitate academic collaborations, and explore opportunities for technology implementation and talent exchange.Social Dinner
Refined, customized dining in a relaxed social setting, allowing AI technologists from around the world to network freely in an informal atmosphere and build long-term technical friendships and collaborations.
🟨 Who Will You Meet?
SuperDev uses an invitation and review system, with the goal of ensuring that most people in the room can immediately engage in informative conversations.
Academic Researchers
PIs and doctoral students from universities and research institutes. Authors of relevant work published at recent top conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and CVPR, or those who have served in academic service roles such as Area Chair.Engineering Leaders and Core Developers
Tech Leads and architects from major AI labs and top startups. They have personally been involved in large-scale training, inference deployment, or infrastructure construction and hold first-hand engineering details.Open-Source Project Maintainers and Core Contributors
Individuals serving as maintainers or core contributors for widely used open-source frameworks, models, or tools, with projects that have real-world usage at scale.Cross-Disciplinary Explorers
Scientists or engineers in fields such as computational biology, mathematics, physics, and chip design who use AI as a key research tool, with work that goes well beyond surface-level application.