Microsoft announced today that Harry Shum, the company's executive vice president, will officially leave early next year, after a Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Harry Shum would leave on February 1. Nadella sent an email to Microsoft saying Harry had decided to leave Microsoft early next year to open the next chapter of its career. Microsoft's current CTO Kevin Scott will assume the role of leading Microsoft AI Research Institute and the appointment will take effect immediately.
Harry's career and achievements at Microsoft span more than 20 years and span many continents. In 1996, he joined Microsoft as a researcher and was a founding member of Microsoft Research Asia. His second career was the establishment of Bing, where we met for the first time. Under the leadership of Harry, Bing has grown into a strong enterprise and helped Microsoft build a key cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology platform. Harry delivered our research investment and artificial intelligence innovation in the process of building AI R and helping to accelerate the application of our research investment and artificial intelligence innovation to our products and delivery to our customers. Played an important role. Under the leadership of Harry, Microsoft Research Institute continues to consolidate its reputation and influence. All Microsoft products and technology areas benefit from MSR.
Because of his contribution to computer vision and graphics research, Dr. Shen Xiangyang became an academician of the American Association of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE Fellow) and an academician of the American computer Association (ACM Fellow) in 2017. Dr. Shen Xiangyang was elected an academician of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).In 2018, Dr. Shen Xiangyang was elected to The Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. Dr. Shen Xiangyang holds a doctorate in robotics from the University of Computer at the Carnegie-Mellon University.
After Mr. Luqi's departure, Shen Xiangyang is also the top-ranking Chinese executive in the US tech giant. He joined Microsoft in 1996 and became vice president of research and development engineering in the search department in 2007; he became the executive vice president of Microsoft in 2013, and entered Microsoft's core management and was responsible for the technology and research firm of the Microsoft Research Institute. It is worth noting that Shen Xiangyang is the last executive vice president of the Ballmer period. After he left, the CEO of Microsoft, Satia Nadella, will complete the big shift of all the senior official levels of the EVP. The media man, Zheng Jun, said, "The company's transformation is successful, and the share price is from 30 to 15." 0, with a market value of $12 billion, almost as well as apple. As such a successful CEO, over the past few years, the entire Microsoft executive has changed blood, and there is no discussion. Shen Xiangyang is the last EVP to stay in the Ballmer period, and other business executives have already replaced their own. Only the non-business CFO or the old man. The stock price is always the first.
Dr. Shen Xiangyang is Microsoft Global Executive Vice President and head of Microsoft artificial Intelligence and Microsoft Research. Overall responsibility for Microsoft's global artificial intelligence strategy, covering infrastructure, services, applications and intelligent assistants and other forward-looking research and development work. He is also in charge of artificial intelligence products, including Microsoft Bing and Cortana products. Dr. Shen Xiangyang runs Microsoft Research Institute and is responsible for the integration of the world's most cutting-edge computer science research institution with Microsoft Product Engineering. In 1996, Dr. Shen Xiangyang joined Redmon, Washington, USA as a researcher. D Microsoft Research Institute. In 1998, he returned to Beijing and joined Microsoft China Research Institute (the predecessor of Microsoft Asia Research Institute) as a founding member. During his nine years in Beijing, he served as a senior researcher, vice president and dean of Microsoft Asia Research Institute, and became an outstanding engineer of Microsoft. Shen Xiangyang served as senior vice president of Microsoft from 2007 to 2013, responsible for the development of Microsoft Bing search products. Prior to this, Dr. Shen Xiangyang also presided over the work of Microsoft Asia Research Institute and was in charge of extensive cooperation with a number of institutions of higher learning in the Asia-Pacific region. He also hosted an Internet service. Search centers, as well as part of Microsoft's strategic investments, work in search and advertising research.
Harry resigned that leaving Microsoft was the hardest decision of his life to stay with research and product development teams at such a great company that he would never forget; gratitude, no word, but deep heart. Then, in the early hours of the morning, the official Microsoft blog also sent out an article entitled "Thank you, Harry!" Thank you, Dr. Shen Xiangyang! > the farewell letter is full of words, it is said: "your favorite conference room 10102, still often brightly lit; you are Mr. China of Microsoft, but also the ambassador of China."