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Harry Shum
Born
Heung-Yeung Shum

October 1966[1]
China
Alma materSoutheast University, Hong Kong University, Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation(s)Executive Vice President, Artificial Intelligence and Research
EmployerMicrosoft
AwardsIEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, National Academy of Engineering Member 2017, Outstanding Technical Leadership Award 2014

Heung-Yeung "Harry" Shum (Chinese: 沈向洋; born in October 1966) is a computer scientist of Chinese origin. He is the Executive Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence and Research group at Microsoft.[2] He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics,[3] and for the development [4] of the search engine Bing.

Early life and education

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Shum grew up in Nanjing, China in a society that was in the midst of change in the 1960s. It was a decade of monumental technological advancements and saw the emergence of new computing systems and languages. He got his bachelor's degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and a master's degree from Hong Kong University.[5][6] His father encouraged him to pursue studies in computer science, which motivated him to move to the US and get a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University[6] in 1996.

Career

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In 1996, Shum joined Microsoft Research in Redmond. He then moved to Microsoft Research China (later renamed Microsoft Research Asia) when it was founded in 1998. In 2004, he became the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. In 2006, he was promoted to Distinguished Engineer of Microsoft Corporation. In 2007, he became Corporate Vice President of Bing Product Development at Microsoft. In 2013, he took on the responsibilities as Microsoft's Executive Vice President, Technology & Research including oversight of Microsoft Research.[7] In 2016, he took lead of Microsoft's newly-formed Artificial Intelligence and Research group. Under Harry's leadership, the Artificial Intelligence and Research group at Microsoft combined advances in machine learning with delivering more intelligent services [8] with the goal of democratizing artificial intelligence and bringing intelligent capabilities to systems that everyone uses.[9] Innovation in language and dialogue, human computer interaction and computer vision lead to advances in Cortana and has made it possible for enterprises to use, or experiment with, trained neural networks for AI tooling including Seeing AI, Presentation Translator for PowerPoint, and a new Bing Entity Search API[10].

  • A new AI-focused venture fund was established, taking a stake in AI incubator Element AI and acquiring deep learning research pioneer Maluuba. [11]
  • Nearly 500 million Windows 10 users take advantage of built-in AI capabilities, while Office 365 has more than 100 million commercial users that access AI-powered tools to make them more creative and productive. [12]
  • There are more than 568,000 developers from more than 60 countries using Microsoft Cognitive Services and implementing AI technology into their own products and service. [13]
  • More than 145 million people use the intelligence of Cortana, while Bing powers one-third of all U.S. searches and gives those people more intelligent ways to search and discover.
  • More than 100 million people interact with Microsoft chatbots Xiaoice, Rinna, Zo, and Ruuh. [14]
  • Speech Recognition Record: Using the Cognitive Toolkit, Microsoft researchers reported in late August a word error rate (WER) of 5.1 percent, down from the 5.9 percent WER the team shared in October 2016 [15]
  • Microsoft is building the world’s first AI supercomputer using FPGAs running in the Microsoft Cloud. Using a single node of the FPGA fabric it can translate War and Peace, all 1440 pages, from Russian to English in just two and a half seconds. The new Brainwave architecture sustains execution of over 130,000 compute operations per cycle, driven by one macro-instruction being issued each 10 cycles. [16]
  • In January 2018, a team at Microsoft Research Asia reached the human parity milestone using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, known among researchers as SQuAD. It’s a machine reading comprehension dataset that is made up of questions about a set of Wikipedia articles. [17]

Research

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Shum has published over 200 papers at international conferences and journals. Most of them are focused on computer graphics and computer vision. He is a pioneer and proponent of research on interactive computer vision.[18] He has published many important interactive computer vision papers on ACM SIGGRAPH. He was also active in Image-based modeling and rendering,[19] which is an important field in realistic computer graphics.[20] In recent years, since he worked on Bing he has been active in web search and data mining research.

Shum was named IEEE Fellow by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2006.[21] In 2007, he was recognized as ACM Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery.[22] In 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the United States, for contributions to computer vision and computer graphics, and for leadership in industrial research and product development. [23]

References

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  1. ^ Fitzpatrick, Dan (November 26, 2006). "As CMU Internet experts discover, China's growing prosperity abets more freedoms, but there are limits". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Harry Shum, a 39-year-old CMU grad who runs Microsoft's Chinese research lab in Beijing.
  2. ^ "Harry Shum". Microsoft Corporation.
  3. ^ "Harry Shum". Microsoft Research. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  4. ^ "Bing's Harry Shum Bags The 2014 Outstanding Technical Leadership Award". microsoft-news.com.
  5. ^ "Harry Shum". Microsoft Research Asia.
  6. ^ a b Heim, Kristi (April 27, 2011). "Harry Shums of the world find many ways to succeed". Seattle Times. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Shum, 44, grew up in Shanghai and came to the U.S. in 1991 to study robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.
  7. ^ "Steve Ballmer email on new roles for Eric Rudder and Harry Shum". Microsoft. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
  8. ^ Marr, Bernard (2017-10-30). "The Amazing Ways Microsoft Uses AI To Drive Business Success". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  9. ^ "Microsoft merges Bing, Cortana, and Research to make 5,000-strong AI division". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  10. ^ Strategy, Moor Insights and. "Microsoft Finds Its AI Voice". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  11. ^ Etherington, Darrell. "Microsoft acquires Maluuba, a startup focused on general artificial intelligence". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  12. ^ Etherington, Darrell. "Microsoft acquires Maluuba, a startup focused on general artificial intelligence". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  13. ^ Foley, Mary Jo. "Microsoft to developers: Here's how to add AI to your apps | ZDNet". ZDNet. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  14. ^ "Microsoft's chatbot changing weavers' lives". The Hans India. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  15. ^ Tung, Liam. "Microsoft's new record: Speech recognition AI now transcribes as well as a human | ZDNet". ZDNet. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  16. ^ "Microsoft showcases first AI supercomputer in action | Technology | Philippine Star". philstar.com. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  17. ^ "AI beats humans in Stanford reading comprehension test". CNET. 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  18. ^ Shum, Harry (2006). "Human Intention Modeling and Interactive Computer Vision". 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE. pp. nil32. doi:10.1109/IROS.2006.282193. ISBN 1-4244-0258-1.
  19. ^ "Image-Based Rendering". Amazon.
  20. ^ "Visual Computing -- Convergence of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision". Schloss Dagstuhl. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  21. ^ "IEEE - Fellows - S". IEEE.org. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  22. ^ "ACM: Fellows Award / Harry Shum". ACM.org. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  23. ^ https://www.nae.edu/Projects/MediaRoom/20095/164396/165210.aspx
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