Jingwei Zuo

Jingwei Zuo is a principal researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), UAE, where he leads the Falcon Foundational Models team. He and his colleagues drive the development of the Falcon family of LLMs, including Falcon-H1, Falcon-Edge, Falcon 3, and Falcon-Mamba. Their work spans the full LLM lifecycle—from novel architecture design and data curation to large-scale training, deployment, and system-level scaling. The team’s mission is to advance the efficiency, scalability, and usability of Falcon LLMs, bridging fundamental research with real-world applications. Jingwei received his PhD (2022) from University of Paris-Saclay, awarded the Plateau de Saclay Doctoral Prize, an MSc (2018) from University of Paris-Saclay, an Engineer degree (2017) from Sorbonne Université, and a BSc from Huazhong University of Science & Technology.