Team
ADPS was initiated by Jia Huang, Bingsheng Ru, Willem Jiang, and Bo Liang, with support from its expert group, advisors, organizing members, White Paper workshop participants, and engineering case contributors.
Expert group
Haofen Wang (王昊奋)
Tenured Professor and doctoral supervisor at Tongji University, working on knowledge graphs and knowledge-enhanced language models. His public projects include OpenSPG, KAG-Thinker, MemOS, and AI-Ceping.
Haili Zhang (张海立)
Author of LangGraph in Action and LangChain in Action, LangChain Ambassador, and LFAPAC open-source advocate. His work covers agent frameworks, dynamic workflows, and open-source engineering.
Huisheng Yin (尹会生)
Vice President of Geekbang Technology and a Hall of Fame member of the Tencent Cloud Architects Alliance. His work spans software engineering, technical education, and architect communities.
Dong Zhang (张栋)
Expert engineer and architect at Tencent. He has led infrastructure engineering and production deployments supporting tens of millions of hosts, million-scale source-code repositories, petabyte-scale daily traffic, and trillion-scale compute workloads.
Qingfeng Li (李庆丰)
Senior Director at Sina Weibo, responsible for infrastructure, core business platforms, and AI tooling, with a focus on AI application architecture. He is Vice Chair of the CCF TF Multi-Agent Systems Engineering SIG.
Wei Wang (王伟)
Senior Test Engineer in Baidu's Mobile Ecosystem Quality and Engineering Effectiveness Department. His work covers LLM and agent evaluation, software delivery effectiveness, and AI workflows.
Mo Zhou (周默)
Technology Director at JD Group and Chief Algorithm Architect for User Growth. His work spans artificial intelligence, data systems, software engineering, and R&D effectiveness, and he was named among JD Retail's ten most influential experts.
Initiating members
Jia Huang (黄佳)
AI researcher at A*STAR Singapore and author of Manning's Designing AI Agents · Profile PDF.
Bingsheng Ru (茹炳晟)
Industry Research Consultant at Tencent Research Institute. Vice Chair of the CCF TF Multi-Agent Systems Engineering SIG.
Willem Jiang (姜宁)
Long-term contributor to the Apache Software Foundation. Developer of DeerFlow.
Bo Liang (梁博)
Vice President of Shanghai Dongfang Yiteng Technology. Works on financial-services SaaS and production execution agents.
Advisors
Joey Tianyi Zhou (周天异)
Head of the AI Systems and Agents chapter at IAIC, A*STAR, and Professor at Singapore Management University. Co-author of the two-axis framework paper arXiv 2605.13850.
Scott Druck
Programme Director, co-founder of Serpin and ByLevel, and author of Bounded Agency, a reference architecture for AI systems.
Organizing members
Pingping Bai (白萍萍)
ADPS Secretary, responsible for external liaison and event coordination. She organizes industry conferences including QECon, Agentic AICon, and PM Product Leadership.
White Paper contributors
The lists below are organized by workshop.
First Reasoning Module Workshop · 26 August 2026
| Name | Public role |
|---|---|
| Huisheng Yin (host) | Vice President, Geekbang Technology; member of the Tencent Cloud Architects Alliance Hall of Fame |
| Jia Huang (host) | ADPS initiator; author of Manning's Designing AI Agents |
| Qingfeng Li | Senior Director, Sina Weibo |
| Dong Zhang | Expert engineer and architect, Tencent |
| Han Zhao | AIGC multimodal reasoning, Ant |
| Didi Li | Business Lead, Shuzhi Yuanjing |
| Fuhai Zhong | Senior Technical Expert, Qunar |
| Yuke Xiong | Technical Architect and Founding Partner, Chengdu Xuanxu Technology |
First Collaboration Module Workshop · 25 August 2026
| Name | Public role |
|---|---|
| Haili Zhang (host) | Author of LangGraph in Action and LangChain in Action; LangChain Ambassador; LFAPAC open-source advocate |
| Jia Huang (host) | ADPS initiator; author of Manning's Designing AI Agents |
| Dong Zhang | Expert engineer and architect, Tencent |
| Wei Wang | Senior Test Engineer, Mobile Ecosystem Quality and Engineering Effectiveness Department, Baidu |
First Governance Module Workshop · 18 August 2026
| Name | Public role |
|---|---|
| Willem Jiang (host) | Long-term Apache Software Foundation contributor; DeerFlow developer |
| Jia Huang (host) | ADPS initiating member; author of Designing AI Agents |
| Yangyang Ma | Senior R&D efficiency specialist, Dewu |
| Dong Zhang | Expert engineer and architect, Tencent |
| Qingfeng Li | Senior Director, Sina Weibo |
| Bo Long | R&D coach, ZTE |
| Yibo Xu | Senior Agent Infrastructure Engineer |
| Bin Wu | Independent consultant in AI-assisted software development |
First Perception Module Workshop · 13 August 2026
| Name | Public role |
|---|---|
| Jia Huang (host) | ADPS initiating member; author of Designing AI Agents |
| Dong Zhang | Expert engineer and architect, Tencent |
| Xianglong Huang | Founder of Beijing Weinian Intelligence; author of OpenLogos and RunLogos |
| Qingfeng Li | Senior Director, Sina Weibo |
| Cheng Huang | Pailuote and Shanyu Studio; game lead programmer |
First Reflection Module Workshop · 12 August 2026
| Name | Public role |
|---|---|
| Haili Zhang (host) | ADPS core expert; LangChain Ambassador |
| Jia Huang (host) | ADPS initiating member; author of Designing AI Agents |
| Dong Zhang | Expert engineer and architect, Tencent |
| Mo Zhou | Technology Director, JD Group; Chief Algorithm Architect for User Growth |
| Wei Wang | Head of LLM Evaluation, Baidu |
| Qianchun Lu | Chief Engineer for Wireline Large Models and Chief Knowledge Engineering Specialist, ZTE |
| Pylon Peng | Team Architect, SAP Labs China |
| Jiaqi Li | Technical Director and Infrastructure Lead, Qunar |
First Action Module Workshop · 6 August 2026
| Name | Public role |
|---|---|
| Bingsheng Ru (host) | Industry Research Consultant, Tencent Research Institute; Vice Chair, CCF TF Multi-Agent Systems Engineering SIG |
| Qingfeng Li | Senior Director, Sina Weibo |
| Dong Zhang | Expert engineer and architect, Tencent |
| Jun Luo (Wuguo) | Lead for AI multimodal evaluation, Alipay |
| Hongshan Tang | Head of the DevOps team, JD Technology |
| Wei Wang | Head of LLM Evaluation, Baidu |
| Pylon Peng | Team Architect, SAP Labs China |
| Leida Ren | Game R&D Transformation Lead, Tencent |
First Memory Module Workshop · 5 August 2026
| Name | Public role |
|---|---|
| Haofen Wang (host) | Tenured Professor and doctoral supervisor, Tongji University; first rotating chair of OpenKG |
| Jia Huang (host) | ADPS initiating member; author of Designing AI Agents |
| Yingfeng Zhang | Co-founder and CEO, InfiniFlow |
| Qiuai Fu | Huawei Cloud AIOps technical lead |
| Dong Zhang | Expert engineer and architect, Tencent |
| Yutao Chen | Solution specialist, MemTensor |
| Qingfeng Li | Senior Director, Sina Weibo |
| Mo Zhou | Technology Director, JD Group; Chief Algorithm Architect for User Growth |
Engineering case contributors
These reports examine constraints, architecture decisions, and transfer boundaries in named systems, research projects, and open-source implementations.
| Contributor | Public role | Case or study |
|---|---|---|
| Bo Liang | Vice President, Shanghai Dongfang Yiteng Technology | Dongfang Yiteng Execution Agent |
| Yuke Xiong | Technical Architect and Founding Partner, Xuanxu Technology | Xuanxu Technology GIS Data-Publication Agent |
| Liangding Yuan | Architect and independent researcher | Natural Language to SysML: A One-Diagram Write-Back Study |
| Willem Jiang | Long-term Apache Software Foundation contributor; DeerFlow developer | DeerFlow Guardrails and Two-Layer Authorization |
| Haili Zhang | Author of LangGraph in Action and LangChain in Action | Code-Generated Dynamic Collaboration in Deep Agents |
Source note: Case material comes from named contributors or public project sources. ADPS publishes it for technical discussion and has not independently evaluated the related products.