About me

Dr. Huahai Yang is a Managing Director of the Center for Advanced AI at Accenture, where he helps enterprises transform their organizations and businesses through the strategic use of AI and data. His expertise is on agentic AI, database architectures and machine learnings.

He is the creator of Datalevin, an open-source Datalog-powered database that unifies relational, graph, logical, document, fulltext and vector paradigms. His work focuses on building practical, high-performance data systems, including innovations in query optimization, transaction management, and hybrid search.

He co-founded Juji, Inc. (acquired by Accenture) and served as CTO, where he led development of an award-winning AI agent platform that seamlessly integrates generative AI and traditional AI approaches to achieve market-leading capabilities in grounding and control of conversational agents.

Previously, Huahai pioneered a machine learning based psychometric inference approach at IBM Almaden Research Center, where he was a research staff member. His research contributions span a wide spectrum of fields including HCI, UX, InfoVis, VR, NLP, IR, ML, and DB, with more than 40 peer-reviewed academic papers and 9 granted patents.

Huahai started his career as a faculty member at University at Albany, SUNY.

Education

• Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• M.S. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
• B.S. East China Normal University, Shanghai