Shaojie Jiang

Hi, I'm Shaojie Jiang

I build practical AI systems that bring cutting-edge technology into real-world use, with a current focus on agentic workflows through Orcheo and AI Colleagues.

About

I’m passionate about applying cutting-edge AI technologies to solve real-world problems, and making it accessible to everyone. I built Orcheo, an easy-to-use agentic workflow orchestration platform.

My PhD in AI and diverse industry experience have sharpened my skills in developing and deploying LLM-based solutions, from research and evaluation to production workflows and user-facing products.

Research Interests

AI Agents Workflow Orchestration Large Language Models Conversational AI LLM Applications AI Product Engineering

Experience

Founder

AI Colleagues

2025 – Present

AI agent workflow and platform development, including building Orcheo for accessible agentic workflow orchestration.

Manager AI

SKIM · Rotterdam

Dec 2023 – Mar 2026

Applied cutting-edge AI to market research, including survey bots and AI-powered data analysis.

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Huawei R&D · Amsterdam

Jul 2022 – Aug 2023

Reward model and PPO development; designed the Chair toolkit for SFT, RM, and PPO training; led the ChatEval challenge at DSTC 11.

Research Intern

Replika · Remote

Feb 2021 – Jul 2021

Improved chatbot engagingness through novel dialogue modeling techniques.

Applied Science Intern

Amazon · Remote

Jul 2020 – Sep 2020

Review summarization with the Subjective NLP team.

Publications

2023

Weakly Supervised Turn-level Engagingness Evaluator for Dialogues

Jiang, S., Vakulenko, S., & de Rijke, M.

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)

2022

A Simple Contrastive Learning Objective for Alleviating Neural Text Degeneration

Jiang, S., Zhang, R., Vakulenko, S., & de Rijke, M.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02517

2020

TLDR: Token Loss Dynamic Reweighting for Reducing Repetitive Utterance Generation

Jiang, S., Wolf, T., Monz, C., & de Rijke, M.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11963

2019

Improving Neural Response Diversity with Frequency-Aware Cross-Entropy Loss

Jiang, S., Ren, P., Monz, C., & de Rijke, M.

The World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2019)

2018

Why are Sequence-to-Sequence Models So Dull? Understanding the Low-Diversity Problem of Chatbots

Jiang, S., & de Rijke, M.

Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SCAI

2017

Robust Struck Tracker via Color Haar-like Feature and Selective Updating

Jiang, S., Ning, J., Cai, C., & Li, Y.

Signal, Image and Video Processing

2016

Object Tracking via Dual Linear Structured SVM and Explicit Feature Map

Ning, J., Yang, J., Jiang, S., Zhang, L., & Yang, M.-H.

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016)

Education

PhD — Open-domain Dialogue Systems

Oct 2017 – Oct 2023

University of Amsterdam

Supervisors: Maarten de Rijke, Svitlana Vakulenko

Master of Engineering

Sep 2014 – Jun 2017

Northwest A&F University

Thesis: Research on Feature Representation and Optimization Methods in Structured Object Tracking

Bachelor of Engineering

Sep 2010 – Jun 2014

Northwest A&F University

Thesis: Implementation of Single Image Haze Removal Using Dark Channel Prior

Skills

Python 90%
PyTorch 90%
Git 90%
Bash 70%
Photography 60%
Rust 50%
Unity 10%

Contact

Feel free to reach out for collaborations, research discussions, or just to say hi.