Qiyin Wu, a former principal engineer at Google DeepMind, has officially joined Baidu. She will lead the company's efforts in large model pre-training. According to reports, Wu will be based in the United States for her new role at the Chinese technology firm.
Before joining Baidu, Wu held a position at the L6-L7 level at Google. Her professional background includes significant contributions to the development of the Gemini 2.5 large language model series, where she was listed as a core author and contributor to the official technical report.
Wu holds a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University. Prior to her tenure at DeepMind, she worked across several core technical teams at Google and gained research experience through projects at the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering.
