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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. 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 Shum'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]

Shum's team pursued innovation in language and dialogue, human computer interaction and computer vision that make it possible for enterprises to use, or experiment with, trained neural networks for AI tooling. Those innovations were used in Microsoft products such as Seeing AI, Presentation Translator for PowerPoint, and a new Bing Entity Search API[10]. Shum expanded Microsoft's investment in AI by establishing an AI-focused venture fund, taking a stake in AI incubator Element AI[11] and acquiring deep learning research pioneer Maluuba. [12]

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.[13] He has published many important interactive computer vision papers on ACM SIGGRAPH. He was also active in Image-based modeling and rendering,[14] which is an important field in realistic computer graphics.[15] 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.[16] In 2007, he was recognized as ACM Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery.[17] 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. [18]

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. ^ "Microsoft Ventures launches new fund for AI startups and backs Element AI incubator". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  12. ^ Etherington, Darrell. "Microsoft acquires Maluuba, a startup focused on general artificial intelligence". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Image-Based Rendering". Amazon.
  15. ^ "Visual Computing -- Convergence of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision". Schloss Dagstuhl. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  16. ^ "IEEE - Fellows - S". IEEE.org. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  17. ^ "ACM: Fellows Award / Harry Shum". ACM.org. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  18. ^ https://www.nae.edu/Projects/MediaRoom/20095/164396/165210.aspx
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