{"id":174245,"date":"2026-01-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-of-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-for-china\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T08:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:05:08","slug":"ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-of-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-of-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"AI scientist Ling Haibin, father of world\u2019s first plant ID app, leaves US for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3338607\/ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-china\">AI scientist Ling Haibin, father of world\u2019s first plant ID app, leaves US for China<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3338607\/ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-china\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3338607\/ai-scientist-ling-haibin-father-worlds-first-plant-id-app-leaves-us-china<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-03 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ling Haibin, renowned for developing the pioneering mobile plant identification app LeafSnap, has returned to China to take a role at Westlake University in Hangzhou.<\/li>\n<li>Ling&#8217;s previous work involved using computers to recognize different plant leaves, leading to innovations in plant identification and education apps.  <\/li>\n<li>He previously held prominent academic positions at Stony Brook University in New York, including the role of Empire Innovation Professor.<\/li>\n<li>Ling&#8217;s move to Westlake University reflects his desire for greater research freedom and supports the university&#8217;s commitment to exploring novel research avenues in AI.<\/li>\n<li>His research focuses on several advanced tech fields like computer vision, augmented reality, medical image analysis, and AI applied to scientific research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI scientist Ling Haibin, father of world\u2019s first plant ID app, leaves US for China&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/01\/03\/d4cf1ac6-5df1-4632-aa43-be68b030d889_5d8551e3.jpg?itok=crCRnciL&v=1767426726","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174247,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174245\/revisions\/174247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}