Feng Yanghe, an expert renowned for designing China's first artificial intelligence "brain" to run military operations, died on July 1 in a traffic accident in Beijing, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence announced on Saturday.
According to the announcement, which was posted on the association's official account on NetEase, the associate professor at the National University of Defense Technology had been focusing his research on reinforcement learning, intelligent gaming, intelligent planning, military simulation and deduction technology.
Feng, 38, died at 2:35 am and had been working on a "major task", according to a notice from the organizing committee of his memorial service that was circulated among Chinese media.