Jia Huang is a Lead Research Engineer at A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore, where his work focuses on NLP, large language models, and applied AI engineering. With over twenty years of experience leading large-scale AI and data projects across government, finance, healthcare, and e-commerce, he brings an unusually practical lens to technically rigorous subjects. In recent years, his research has primarily focused on NLP pre-trained large models and FinTech applications.
He is the author of six bestselling technical books, including Hands-on AI Agent Development for Large Model Applications selected as one of JD Best Books of 2024 and GPT: How Large Models Are Built, named CSDN's Most Influential IT Book of 2023. His online RAG engineering course has been completed by over 10,000 students.

