Heung-Yeung "Harry" Shum (Chinese: 沈向洋; pinyin: Shěn Xiàngyáng; born October 1966)[1] is a Chinese computer scientist who was a doctoral student of Raj Reddy. He was the Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Research at Microsoft.[2] He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics,[3] and the development of Bing.
He received his Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He also earned his bachelor's degree from Southeast University in Nanjing, China, and a master's from Hong Kong University.
He joined Microsoft Research in 1996 and 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 2007, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President.
References[]
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ "Harry Shum". Microsoft. Archived from the original on October 7, 2014.
- ↑ "Harry Shum". Microsoft Research. Microsoft. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013.
External links[]
- Biography on Microsoft.com (archived October 8, 2010)
- Harry Shum at Wikipedia