In Shen Xiangyang's 23-year Microsoft career, the most influential one is the nine years in which he participated in the establishment of Microsoft Asia Research Institute. In these nine years, the research institute has gradually developed from a few people to the largest Microsoft research institute outside the United States, and has become a world-class computer foundation and application research institution, affecting and promoting the development of cutting-edge technology in the whole field of computer science. Microsoft Institute of Asia, known as the Huangpu military Academy of artificial Intelligence, has given birth to a number of leaders in artificial intelligence and computer science, the most famous of whom include Lee Kaifu, the first president. Baidu President Zhang Yaqin, former Jinshan Software CEO Zhang Hongjiang, current President Hong Xiaowen, Ali Technical Committee Chairman Wang Jian, Jinri Toutiao Vice President Ma Weiying, Xiaomi Group founder Lin Bin, etc.
His career at Microsoft Asia Research has also laid the foundation for Shen Xiangyang to rise in Microsoft's future career. In 2007, Shen Xiangyang returned to Microsoft's US headquarters to undertake a more arduous task: catching up with Google and Yahoo search in the search business. In 2009, Steve Ballmer, then Microsoft's chief executive, announced for the first time that Microsoft Live search was officially renamed Microsoft search. In the same year, it announced a 10-year cooperation agreement with Yahoo search. Two years later, Bing search's market share beat Yahoo for the first time, reaching 4.37%. By October 2018, B Ing search has 4.58% of the global market share, ranking third behind Google and Baidu.
Shen Xiangyang thinks that, when the artificial intelligence research is further in-depth, it will be more related to various subjects such as philosophy, sociology, psychology and so on, and the rapid development of technology can make the process come more quickly.
In 1996, Mr. Shen joined the Microsoft Research Institute in Redmond, Washington, USA as a researcher. In the period 2007-2013, Shen Xiangyang served as the senior vice president of Microsoft, and was responsible for the research and development. In September,2018, Shen Xiangyang announced the establishment of the Microsoft Asia Research Institute, and Shen Xiangyang had a doctor's degree in the robotics of the computer college of the Carnegie-Mellon University. As a result of the outstanding contribution to the computer industry, he became a member of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Computer Association. In 2017, Shen Xiangyang was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2018, Shen Xiangyang was elected Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Since 2013, Shen Xiangyang has been promoted to executive vice president of Microsoft, taking charge of Microsoft's technology and research and development. In 2014, Microsoft's new chief executive, Satya Nadella, took office, and Microsoft began a new round of changes, this time on the theme of cloud and artificial intelligence. In 2016, after a series of large-scale organizational restructuring, Shen Xiangyang became the actual leader of Microsoft's artificial intelligence. Lead the overall direction and strategy of Microsoft in the field of artificial intelligence research.
After completing his doctorate in robotics from the Academy of computer Sciences of Carnegie Mellon University, Shen joined Microsoft headquarters as a researcher in 1996. In 1998, he went to Beijing and joined Lee Kaifu, Zhang Yaqin and others in the establishment of Microsoft China Research Institute, which was later renamed Microsoft Asia Research Institute. Over the next nine years, he was a research manager. The assistant dean rose all the way to the dean and chief scientist of Microsoft Institute of Asia. Before Microsoft had a series of job titles, Shen Xiangyang was an academic researcher who published more than 200 papers in international conferences and academic journals. Domain is computer graphics and vision, Ph.D. mentor is the industry elder, Turing Award winner Raj Reddy.
In 2006, Shen Xiangyang became an academician of the American Electrical and Electronic Engineering Association and an academician of the International computer Association in 2007. In 2017, he was elected an academician of the American Academy of Engineering. From 2007 to 2013, Shen Xiangyang was vice president of Microsoft in charge of Bing search product research and development. since 2013, Shen Xiangyang has been executive vice president of Microsoft. In 2016, Microsoft made a series of major organizational restructuring. Shen Xiangyang began to lead Microsoft's newly formed artificial intelligence research group of 5000 people, including Cortana, Bing search, an artificial intelligence voice assistant, and machines.
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Beijing time is about 0:00 a. M., and Microsoft's current CEO, Satia Nadella, announced in the company's internal mail that the company's global executive vice-president, Shen Xiangyang, will formally leave early in 2020.
Even as an expert in the industry's reputation as a global leader in the world, when talking about artificial intelligence, Shen Xiangyang showed a modest gesture, and he admitted that, despite recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence, But the "There's too many unknowns." in this field, as the research personnel, how to view the technology correctly, how to use the technology correctly, the importance is even higher than the research itself.
