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American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hey has written books on particle physics and computing and has a passionate interest in communicating the excitement of science and technology to young people.

Steven C. His current research interests are machine learning and data mining with application to tackle real-world challenges in several areas, including large-scale multimedia retrieval image and video search , social media, web search and mining, computer vision and pattern recognition, and computational finance.

He has published more than referred papers in premier journals and top conferences in his research field. An IEEE fellow and a distinguished scientist at Microsoft, Hon is an internationally recognized expert in speech technology. He serves on the editorial board of the international journal, Communications of the ACM. Hon has published more than technical papers in international journals and at conferences. He co-authored Spoken Language Processing , which is a graduate-level textbook and reference book in the area of speech technology in many universities around the world.

Hon holds three dozen patents in several technical areas. Hon has been with Microsoft since He joined Microsoft Research Asia in as a deputy managing director, responsible for research in Internet search, speech and natural language, system, wireless, and networking. From to , he founded and managed the Search Technology Center—the center for the development of the Bing Internet search engine in the Asia-Pacific region.

Hon received a Ph. He started his career on the faculty at Princeton in and moved to Cornell in In , he became the chair of the Department of Computer Science. In , he became associate dean for College Affairs, and in he became dean of the College of Engineering, in which job he served until when he returned to the Department of Computer Science.

Hopcroft earned his B. His current research interests are in the area of information capture and access. Eric Horvitz is a Microsoft distinguished scientist and deputy managing director of Microsoft Research Redmond. He has pursued theoretical and practical challenges with sensing, learning, and decision-making under uncertainty, with applications in human decision-making and in computational systems that perceive, learn, and reason.

He has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI and is the immediate past president of the organization. Michael I. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from to His research in recent years has focused on Bayesian nonparametric analysis, probabilistic graphical models, spectral methods, variational methods, kernel machines and applications to problems in statistical genetics, signal processing, computational biology, information retrieval, and natural language processing.

Hong-Goo Kang received the B. He is currently a professor at Yonsei University. He has served on numerous conferences and program committees.

Daisuke Kawahara received his B. He obtained his Ph. His research interests include natural language processing, knowledge acquisition, and web mining. Nic Lane is a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He is an experimentalist who likes to build prototype smartphone sensing systems based on well-founded computational models.

Lane has a Ph. His dissertation pioneered community-guided techniques for learning human behavior models better able to cope with real-world conditions containing diverse user populations. Peter Lee is the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research Redmond. The lab delivers product-focused research for Microsoft, and it also contributes to the broader scientific community by openly publishing basic research results. Before he joined Microsoft, he held key positions in both government and academia.

One of the highlights of his work at DARPA was the DARPA Network Challenge, which mobilized millions of people worldwide in a hunt for red weather balloons—a unique experiment in social media and open innovation that fundamentally altered the thinking throughout the DoD on the power of social networks. At CMU, he carried out research in software reliability, program analysis, security, and language design. He is well-known for his co-development of proof-carrying code techniques for enhanced software security, and has tackled problems as diverse as programming for large-scale modular robotics systems and shape analysis for C programs.

Lee holds a Ph. He received the B. From to , he worked at the City College of New York as a postdoctoral researcher. His current research interests include image and video processing, 3-D scene reconstruction, and non-photorealistic rendering.

He received his B. In , he joined the faculty of Lehigh University as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In , he was promoted to associate professor with tenure. In , he was promoted to full professor. From to , he worked in several high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley with technical and management responsibilities.

Li has been elected to Fellow of IEEE for contributions to image and video coding algorithms, standards, and implementations. Li has made many contributions to International Standards. As a technical advisor, he also made contributions to the Chinese Audio Video coding Standard and its applications.

She received her Ph. She holds a B. She has been participating in service activities for the CHI community and the design community as a program committee member and as an organizing committee member for top international conferences.

Her current research focus has been in the areas of experience-centered design and aesthetics of interaction, as well as prototyping in interaction design—especially for creative interaction design. Between and , he worked at Microsoft Research Asia. Then he worked at Zhejiang University as an associate professor and professor respectively during and He paid an academic visit to Harvard University during and His research interests include digital geometric processing, computer graphics, image processing, and compressed sensing.

He has published more than 50 research papers in the area of geometry processing and image processing including seven Siggraph or Siggraph Asia papers and four Eurographics papers. He is interested in studying mathematical principles behind the processing and understanding of visual data such as images and videos. In particular, he recently worked on high-dimensional data clustering and classification, compression-based image segmentation, robust face recognition via sparse representation, and error correction for high-dimensional signals and matrices.

Before joining Microsoft Research Asia in January , he was a tenured associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since Andrew Ng is an associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and a co-founder of Coursera, which works with top universities to offer a high quality education to anyone in the world, for free.

In addition to his work with online education, Ng also works on machine learning and building AI through large-scale brain simulations. As Microsoft chief research officer, Richard F.

Rick Rashid oversees worldwide operations for Microsoft Research, an organization encompassing more than researchers across 13 labs worldwide. Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research across more than 55 disciplines. After joining Microsoft in September , Rashid served as director and vice president of Microsoft Research and was promoted to his current role in In his earlier roles, he led research efforts on operating systems, networking, and multiprocessors, and he authored patents in such areas as data compression, networking, and operating systems.

During his tenure, Rashid developed the Mach multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of modern operating systems and remains at the core of several commercial systems. Rashid received Master of Science and doctoral degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rochester.

Ren has been working on fundamental studies in the field of human-computer interaction HCI for more than 20 years. Prior to his current position, he worked for eight years in the Faculty of Engineering at Tamagawa University, serving concurrently for one year as a visiting researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology.

His recent focus is on applications of ubiquitous computing in everyday life. He has been granted more than 50 patents. Song and his team at KAIST have been developing a user experience-oriented mobile software platform for future smartphones and other mobile devices to enable new mobile user experiences with advanced applications, which is an integral part of the effort of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Korea, to develop future mobile platforms. Lolan Song leads a regional team with members based in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, which engages universities, research institutes, and certain relevant government agencies.

She establishes strategies and directions, identifies business opportunities, and designs various programs and projects. Her team works with students, researchers, faculty members, and university administrators to build strong partnerships and also works closely with the groups at Microsoft Research Asia.

Lolan Song joined Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, in as a systems engineer. She worked in Tokyo for more than five years and in Redmond for five years before she moved to Beijing, China, in Prior to her current role, Lolan Song worked in various positions at Microsoft ranging from systems engineer for business applications, IT manager for the Asia-Pacific region, senior program manager for a large-scale data mining system, to the business manager for a global technical online community program.

Before joining Microsoft, Lolan Song worked on software development for small, start-up companies and large companies. Ya-Yunn Su received her B. Her research interests include operating systems, systems management, mobile computing, and cloud computing. He graduated from, and was an assistant professor at, the University of Tokyo, and was a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania.

He has served on the committees of more than 30 conferences, symposiums, and workshops in the United States, Europe, and Japan. He is also interested in functional programming and received with his colleagues the first place in the ICFP Programming Contest in and , and chaired the contest. Her research focuses on haptic human-machine interfaces and haptic perception. She has published more than peer-reviewed journal and conference articles in haptics research. She is known internationally as a leading expert on haptics psychophysics, taking a perception-based approach to solving engineering problems.

She is frequently invited to give keynote speeches at international conferences and research institutions, educating a broad audience on haptics and its emerging applications in human computer interaction, robotics, medicine and education. Stewart Tansley is a director at Microsoft Research Connections. Before Microsoft, he spent 13 years in the telecommunications and satellite industry, focusing on technology transfer.

His Ph. He has published a variety of papers on robotics, artificial intelligence, and network management, and has several patents. He co-authored a book on software engineering for artificial intelligence applications and co-edited The Fourth Paradigm , a book of visionary essays on the emerging field of data-intensive science. She is also the co-director of OLnet. She has served on the working group at the U. His research interests include ubiquitous computing systems, smart spaces, sensor networks, distributed real-time operating systems, and embedded systems.

He was a general chair of UbiComp in Tokyo, a general co-chair of Pervasive in Nara, and a program co-chair of Pervasive in Newcastle. Li-Chun Wang received the B. He has published more than journal and international conference papers and holds eight U. His research covers computer graphics, visualization, and geometric computing. He has recently focused on mesh generation and surface modeling for architectural design. Fostering U. Microsoft in Business Blogs.

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