Dr. Yiran Zhong is the Senior Research Director at MiniMax, where he leads the design of large model network architectures and the development of multimodal deep reasoning models. Previously, he served as a Young Scientist at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, heading the New Architecture Exploration Group as the Principal Investigator (PI). Dr. Zhong earned his Ph.D. from the Australian National University, under the guidance of Professor Hongdong Li and Professor Richard Hartley, a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has authored over 20 papers in leading international conferences and journals, advancing non-Transformer architectures such as Linear Attention Mechanisms, Long Convolutions, and Linear Recurrent Networks (Linear RNN).