Mo Zhou has been a Debian Developer since 2018. He maintains a wide range of packages including but not limited to scientific computing libraries and machine learning libraries. He raised the Debian community’s awareness of software freedom issues around the deep learning ecosystem as early as 2018, and drafted the unofficial ML-Policy for Debian in 2019. He is also a current PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, studying Deep Learning and Computer Vision. He published a couple of papers in top-tier AI-related academic conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, etc., as well as top-tier AI-related academic journals such as IEEE T-PAMI. He also serves as paper reviewer for a wide range of conferences and journals.
How the candidate will contribute to the board
The candidate has experience on both free software / open-source software and artificial intelligence. He has been an official Debian developer since 2018. He has been studying artificial intelligence since 2015. The candidate can help the board for the definition drafting process for the Open Source AI, and help the board understand details in AI systems. The candidate can verify existing AI systems with respect to the draft definition.
Why the candidate should be elected
One of the most important work for OSI in 2024 is the Open Source AI Definition. OSI board needs a person who is very familiar with both free software / open source software, and (especially) artificial intelligence in very depth. I’m not quite good at reading legal documents like licenses, but that’s why we work together for good.