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Mu Li

Co-founder of Boson AI; co-author of Dive into Deep Learning; led an AWS team working on Apache MXNet

  • Co-Founder & CEO / CTO, Boson AI123

Mu Li co-founded Boson AI with Alex Smola in 2023, and the company's team page lists Li as Co-Founder & CEO / CTO. Earlier, Li was a principal scientist for machine learning at Amazon Web Services, where Li led a team working primarily on the Apache MXNet framework; Li is also a co-author of the 2015 paper introducing MXNet. With Aston Zhang, Zachary C. Lipton and Alexander J. Smola, Li co-wrote Dive into Deep Learning, an open-source book whose text is released under CC BY-SA 4.0 and whose code is implemented in PyTorch, NumPy/MXNet, JAX and TensorFlow.124567

Work

  • Dive into Deep Learning (external site: d2l.ai)Published research

    Co-author of the open-source book, listed among its main authors; the repository releases the text under CC BY-SA 4.0 and the sample code under a modified MIT license.67

  • Apache MXNet (external site: github.com)Open-source code

    Co-author of "MXNet: A Flexible and Efficient Machine Learning Library for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems" (2015) and, per a 2017 AWS post, leader of the AWS team working primarily on the framework.548

Earlier roles

  • Principal scientist for machine learning, leading a team working primarily on Apache MXNet, Amazon Web Services46

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

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    Boson AI — Team (external site: boson.ai)

    Boson AI · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    Boson AI — About (external site: boson.ai)

    Boson AI · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    mli (Mu Li) on GitHub (external site: github.com)

    GitHub · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    In the Research Spotlight: Mu Li (AWS Machine Learning Blog) (external site: aws.amazon.com)

    Amazon Web Services · Announcement · published May 24, 2017 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    d2l-ai/d2l-en README (licenses) (external site: github.com)

    d2l-ai (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    apache/mxnet LICENSE (Apache License 2.0) (external site: github.com)

    apache (GitHub repository) · License · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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