Jie Hu

Jie Hu is a research director at Meituan, where he leads the Embodied AI and Image Generation Foundation team within the LongCat group. He is best known as the first author of Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks (SENet), which won first place in the ImageNet 2017 classification challenge, and more recently as project leader of Meituan-Robotics-0, a vision-language-action foundation model for robotic manipulation. He holds a PhD from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research spans visual representation, AIGC, and embodied AI.