Jinming Hu

Founder and Chief Scientist

Sea-Land.ai

I am now the founder and Chief Scientist of Sea-Land.ai.

I was a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. Before that, I graduated as a master student of artificial intelligence from the Zhejiang University CAD&CG National Key Lab ZJULearning Group. I was very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Deng Cai and Prof. Xiaofei He. I was also a research intern at the University of Toronto, where I was very unfortunate to work with Qizhen Zhang, so I decided to quit at last. My research includes machine learning, data mining, deep learning, computer vision, operating system, system programming, and database. I have worked as a system developer in Optiver Shanghai and have interned as a machine learning engineer in Hangzhou FABU, where I was fortunate to work with many colleagues, and in Google, where I was fortunate to work with Jingtao Wang. I was also a software engineer @ DolphinDB Inc, where I was fortunate to work with Davis and Xinjing Zhou, and many colleagues.

Interests

  • Database
  • Operating System
  • System Programming
  • Information Retrieval
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • MEng in Artificial Intelligence, 2020

    Zhejiang University

  • BSc in Aerospace Engineering, 2017

    Northwestern Polytechnical University

Publications

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Posts

After My PhD Journey: My Conflict with My PhD Advisor Qizhen Zhang

In less than three months, family crisis and conflict with my PhD advisor changed everything, and I chose a new path in AI …

Before My PhD Journey

A reflection before departure: five years of work, struggle, and choices, and a final commitment to research and education.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Founder and Chief Scientist

Sea-Land.ai

Dec 2025 – Present
Leading research and development in high-performance systems and machine learning. Build good and helpful AI for everyone.
 
 
 
 
 

PhD Student

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
Conducting research for AI and DB.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

University of Toronto

Jan 2025 – Dec 2025 Toronto
 
 
 
 
 

Software Engineer

DolphinDB

Mar 2021 – Present Hangzhou

Fortunate to work with Davis, Xinjing Zhou, and many colleagues.

  • Designing and building the storage engine for Time-Series Database, which is extremely efficient both for analytics, writing data, and point-query.

  • Leading System/DB for AI, add textDB(text search in DolphinDB), vectorDB, and etc.

  • Maintaining and extending the existing computing engine

    • Designing and developing new computing functionalities like distributed join.
    • Optimizing existing functionalities such as group by, context by, and etc.
    • Designing a RBO + CBO.
    • Extending the Dlang language.
 
 
 
 
 

Invited Lecturer

Zhejiang University

Nov 2020 – Jan 2021 Hangzhou

Responsibilities include:

 
 
 
 
 

System Developer

Optiver

Apr 2020 – Nov 2020 Shanghai

Responsibilities include:

  • Developing the rule-based autotraders.

  • Improving the machine learning pipeline.

  • Improving the testing environment for binaries.

 
 
 
 
 

ML SWE Intern

Google CloudAI

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 Beijing

Exploring extended application for Tesseract with some development.

 
 
 
 
 

ML Engineer Intern

Hangzhou FABU Co. Ltd

May 2018 – Nov 2018 Hangzhou

Fortunate to work with many colleagues.

  • Designing and developing human face module in ADAS
  • Designing and developing human face verification system
 
 
 
 
 

ML Research Intern

Hangzhou Netease Co. Ltd

Jan 2018 – Mar 2018 Hangzhou
Researching in single image super resolution.
 
 
 
 
 

Master Student

Zhejiang University

Sep 2017 – Mar 2020 Hangzhou

Responsibilities include:

  • Learning basic computer science knowledge
  • Researching in machine learning, data mining and computer vision
  • Teaching assistants for Machine Learning course