(Original title: Where did China's artificial intelligence leader come from: almost taken by Baidu and Microsoft)
News Reporter Bao Yuyu
Forbes magazine recently selected "20 technological leaders who drive the reform of artificial intelligence in China." Li Kaifu, Lu Qi, Zhang Hao, Wang Haifeng, Zhou Jingren, Qi Wanli and other per capita names.
The selection pointed out that Western countries may be the original Baidu chief scientist Andrew Eg, Sebastian Thrun, father of Google’s unmanned car, and “father of neural networks†Geoffrey. People like Hinton) are relatively well-known, but they rarely understand the key people who lead Chinese AI innovation. In fact, these executives, entrepreneurs, professors, and researchers are located in the most important Chinese technology companies and research laboratories and are widely respected for their technical expertise and achievements.
According to the list of 20 people selected by Forbes, only 4 of the leaders driving the development of artificial intelligence in China have come from universities and research institutes. Most of them are from China's top technology companies, including the Chinese Internet. The big three BAT (Baidu, Ali, Tencent) almost swept the remaining places.
Statistics from Jingwei News show that among the 20 people currently serving in Baidu, as many as 7 people, plus those who once worked in Baidu, just 10 people occupy half of the list, saying that Baidu has held up the leader of Chinese artificial intelligence. Half of the country is not an exaggeration.
Baidu began deploying artificial intelligence five or six years ago. In 2012, it established the Institute of Deep Learning. It was one of the technology companies that entered the field of artificial intelligence earlier. Judging from the number of talents, Baidu's advanced layout has achieved remarkable results. "Forbes" also pointed out in another report released earlier this year that Baidu incorporated self-learning and neuron network technology into its core search business to achieve innovation in its business model. Baidu's search business occupies 75% of China's market share, and has data from a large customer base, which helps to use AI to provide customers with more effective and personalized services.
Judging from the work experience of these 20 people, most of China’s artificial intelligence leaders have overseas R&D experiences with technology companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and IBM. The most interesting thing is that as many as 8 of them had worked for Microsoft. It can be seen that Microsoft's title of Whampoa Military Academy in China's IT industry is not false.
List of 20 technology leaders driving China's artificial intelligence reform, and their resumes. (√ indicates the unit currently in office, O indicates that he has served in the unit)
Undoubtedly, China’s top technology companies are now opening fire in the field of artificial intelligence and investing more in this area. In a recent report, McKinsey, a consultancy, pointed out that Chinese academic and research institutions have recently achieved greater success in artificial intelligence papers than the United States, the United Kingdom, or any of the world’s leading artificial intelligence agencies, generating only in 2015. 10,000 papers.
The report pointed out that China has become one of the leading artificial intelligence development centers in the world. China’s largest technology company recognizes that a large number of populations and diversified industries can generate large amounts of data and provide a huge market, so they are all Increasing investment in artificial intelligence. And these technologies can greatly increase productivity, or they will become the key capability for the Chinese society to sustain economic growth under the pressure of aging labor force. The role of artificial intelligence in the potential development of China's economy depends on its actual application capabilities, not only in the application of technology, but also its transformation of traditional industries. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to establish strategic awareness of business leaders, accumulate knowledge related to the development of technology, and invest in costs.
McKinsey predicts that the extensive application of these technologies will bring profound changes to China’s hundreds of millions of workers and the Chinese society. Half of China’s work is expected to be automated in the future and become the world’s most automated potential country.
Forbes also pointed out that with the support of billions of dollars of investment from powerful governments and enterprises, China is challenging the United States’ position as a global leader in artificial intelligence. The U.S. government is concerned about the inability of the leading position and is considering restricting Chinese capital’s investment in the U.S. artificial intelligence field.
Attached: List and introduction of “20 leaders who drive China’s artificial intelligence reformâ€
1, Kai-fu Lee
Co-founder of Innovation Workshop, former President of Google China
Kai-Fu Lee has worked for Apple, Microsoft, and Google and is a globally recognized leader in technology. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Columbia University and a doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University. In September 2009, after he left from Google, he founded an innovation workshop and actively invested in startup companies in the fields of Chinese-American technology and artificial intelligence.
Kai-fu Lee is highly regarded in China and has more than 50 million fans on China's social networking sites. He has become a symbolic "prophet" of China's technology development trends. Li Kaifu recently told CNBC reporters that artificial intelligence is "a greater miracle than all human science and technology revolutions such as electricity, the industrial revolution, the Internet, and the mobile Internet."
2. Lu Qi
Baidu Group President and COO
Lu Qi joined Baidu and led the company's AI strategy work to promote internal integration and collaboration. Each Baidu business unit, including the autonomous driving AI team, reported to Lu Qi. Baidu’s spokesperson said: “With Lu Qi’s leadership, we are confident that the company’s strategy will be implemented smoothly and Baidu is confident that it will become a world-class leader in technology companies and artificial intelligence.â€
Prior to joining Baidu, Luke personally recruited Microsoft through Steve Ballmer and eventually became the executive vice president of the Applications and Services Group. Lu Qi began his career at IBM Research Laboratories, then joined Yahoo and was promoted to Executive Vice President of Search Advertising Group. He completed his bachelor's degree in computer science at Fudan University and was invited by Edmund M. Clarke of Carnegie University to pursue his doctoral degree at Carnegie University (CMU).
3. Wang Haifeng
Baidu vice president, head of artificial intelligence technology platform system
After Wu Enda left Baidu, Wang Haifeng took over as the head of Baidu's AI Technology Platform System (AIG). The platform includes deep learning labs, big data labs, Silicon Valley AI labs, augmented reality labs, natural language processing departments, and artificial intelligence platform departments.
Wang Haifeng’s technical expertise lies in natural language processing and machine translation. He has authored over 100 academic papers on artificial intelligence and applied his professional knowledge to the development of various aspects of neuroscience programming, computer mathematics, speech recognition, knowledge mapping, personalized recommendation, and deep learning. Wang Haifeng received his bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctoral degree in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology. He is now an adjunct professor at Harbin Institute of Technology.
4. Zhang Hao
Tencent Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Director
The top talent in the field of artificial intelligence is very popular. Zhang Hao resigned from Baidu to Tencent last year and is responsible for the newly established artificial intelligence laboratory. Before that, he was the head of Baidu Big Data Lab. He also worked at IBM and Yahoo and served as a professor at Rutgers University.
Zhang Jian has more than 50 scientific research staff and more than 250 engineers. He is committed to expanding Tencent's capabilities in machine learning, computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. It also applies artificial intelligence technology to popular products such as WeChat. .
5. Zhou Jingren
Alibaba Cloud Chief Scientist and Vice President
Aliyun was established in 2009 and is currently the fastest growing business in Ali. Similar to Amazon Cloud Computing Services, Alibaba Cloud uses its powerful computing power to handle millions of online shopping transactions.
Zhou Jingren led the team to conduct big data and artificial intelligence research at the Alibaba Cloud Data Science and Technology Institute, promoting the development of Alibaba's artificial intelligence technology in language, natural language, image and video processing, and large-scale machine learning.
Prior to joining Alibaba, Zhou Jingren worked as an engineering manager at Microsoft, responsible for developing the big data platform and providing support for Windows, Office, and Bing. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China and a doctorate in computer science from Columbia University.
6. He Xiaofei
President of Drip Research Institute
Drip trips are China's Uber, which produces up to 50TB of real-time data per day and over 9 billion driving routes. The Drip Research Institute is known as the “brain†for the travel of droplets. It is a machine learning institute established by DDT Corporation to predict user needs and mitigate adverse effects. It also develops automated driving technology.
He Xiaofei graduated from Zhejiang University with a bachelor's degree in computer science and received a doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. Before joining Dripping Research Institute, he worked as a research scientist in the Yahoo Search Laboratory and later taught at Zhejiang University, focusing on applied mathematics and data analysis to solve important issues in graphic recognition, multimedia, and computer vision.
7. Lin Yuanqing
Baidu Deep Learning Lab Director
Lin Yuanqing is director of Baidu Deep Learning Labs (IDL), which includes the Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Big Data Lab, Augmented Reality Lab, and Deep Learning Institute. Together with Xu Wei, he led Baidu to lead the construction of a deep learning technology and application of a national engineering laboratory. The laboratory is funded by the Chinese government and jointly built by Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Prior to joining Baidu, Lin Yuanqing was the head of the media analysis department at NEC Labs in the United States. He led the team to research computer vision and develop mobile search and driverless cars. Lin Yuanqing holds a master's degree in optical engineering from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
8. Zhu frequently
Small robot president and CTO
Xiaoi Robot is China's leading artificial intelligence dialogue platform, providing support for most robots and virtual assistants in the country. Xiaoi Robot was established in Shanghai in 2001 to provide technical services to large and medium-sized enterprises, government agencies, and 500 million users.
Zhu frequently has many patents in the field of space - chat robot system, SMS robot system, making the small i robots occupy technical advantages in the dialogue interface. In addition to operating the small robot, Zhu frequently works as a doctor of science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has worked at multiple human-computer interaction governance committees and has won numerous awards.
9. Xu Wei
Baidu Outstanding Scientist
In Baidu, a company with a large number of high-level scientists, researchers and engineers, Xu Wei is the only person to receive the title of "outstanding scientist." Xu Wei was highly praised for his outstanding technological contributions in the development of the PaddlePaddle. PaddlePaddle is a brand new deep learning open source platform that was opened to the public in the second half of 2016. PaddlePaddle has gone through three years of research and development and can now be used for search rankings, targeted advertising, image recognition, machine translation, and driverless cars.
Xu Wei holds a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University and a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Baidu, he served as a researcher in NEC Labs and Facebook.
10. Miles of Miles
Alibaba Digital Science Director
Wei Wanli is responsible for the development of Alibaba Cloud Artificial Intelligence System (aka Small Ai). Alibaba deployed Alibaba Cloud to support the company's flagship e-commerce business, customer service, and traffic forecasting. In addition, Wan Wanli also used machine learning to predict the winner of China's popular reality show “I am a singer†and helped Guangdong urban planners to optimize traffic lights in real time and reduce traffic congestion.
Qian Wanli entered the university at the age of 14, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, and received a doctorate in statistics from the University of Chicago.
11. Jing Hao
Baidu Department of Secrets General Manager
Degree Secret is Baidu's conversational artificial intelligence secretary, similar to Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa. This artificial intelligence session platform provides virtual assistant services for a variety of devices, including small fish known as the "China Echo", voice-activated smart TVs and so on.
Jing Hao leads the Department of Secret Business. Prior to joining Baidu, Jing Hao was Microsoft's Director of R&D. He developed the chat robot Xiao Bing, which is popular on Tencent WeChat and Sina Weibo. Xiao Bing has 20 million registered users. Each user has an average of 60 interactions with chat bots each month, occupying the top ranking of Weibo's influence.
12. Yu Dong
Deputy Director of Tencent Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Yu Dong was appointed as the deputy director of the Tencent Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and was responsible for the new lab together with Zhang Hao, and took the lead in conducting research on speech recognition and natural language understanding. Prior to joining Tencent, Yu Dong was a Principal Researcher in the Voice and Dialogue Group at Microsoft Research, an Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang University, a Visiting Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China, and a Visiting Fellow at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Yu Dong holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University and a doctorate in computer science from Idaho University.
Yu Dong said: "I am very pleased to join the Tencent artificial intelligence laboratory. In the past ten years, Tencent has accumulated a wealth of application scenarios, massive data, powerful computing capabilities and first-class scientific and technological talents, these are to carry out AI in-depth research And the important foundation of the application."
13. Adam Coats
Baidu Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Director
Coats received his undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in computer science from Stanford University, and he is committed to research in computer vision for self-driving cars, deep learning for speech recognition, and machine learning for helicopter special effects. In Baidu, he developed DeepSpeech and DeepVoice. DeepSpeech is a speech recognition and conversion system that speaks like a Mandarin-speaking person. DeepVoice is a text-to-speech conversion system that emits vocal-like audio.
Coats is very excited about allowing ordinary users to experience artificial intelligence. When named MIT's top 35 young innovators under the age of 35 in the world, Coats said: “In a fast-growing economy like China, many people will connect to the Internet for the first time through mobile phones, and It's incredible for smart devices to interact like chat and solve problems. I think Baidu's users have a much greater need for artificial intelligence than they think."
14. Yu Kai
Horizon Robot Founder, CEO
Yu Kai was the head of the Baidu Deep Learning Institute and later left Baidu, where he founded Horizon Robotics. Yu Kai’s main investors are Yuri Milner and Sequoia Capital. His goal is to develop “Andriod Roboticsâ€, an artificial intelligence system that supports all smart devices. Unlike other tech giants in China's cloud computing industry, Horizon Robotics aims to apply artificial intelligence to every hardware device in the physical world.
To date, Horizon Robotics has launched two platforms: Anderson for smart homes and Hugo for smart driving. Anderson allows home devices to have the ability to automatically place orders for face recognition, while Hugo is an advanced driver assistance system that detects people and objects even in harsh weather conditions.
Yu Kai holds a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from Nanjing University and a doctorate in computer science from the University of Munich, Wis. Maximilian.
15. Wang Jin
Former Baidu Senior Vice President
Wang Jin managed more than 5,000 engineers while working at Baidu, involving multiple businesses, including his own mobile, cloud computing, big data, network security, Baidu Research Institute and driverless business. After leaving Baidu, Wang Jin established his own driverless car company.
Before joining Baidu, Wang Jin served as vice president of Google China Engineering Research Institute, and general manager of eBay China CTO and R&D center. Wang Jin graduated from China University of Science and Technology with a master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
16. Zhang Bo
Tsinghua University Professor of Computer Science and Technology
Zhang Bo is a professor at Tsinghua University. His research areas include artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge engineering, and robotics. Zhang Bo has excellent academic achievements, such as robot task planning, probabilistic logic neural network, image retrieval and classification, and machine learning algorithms for web page structure mining.
In addition to Baidu and Li Wei of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tsinghua University also participates in the joint construction of the government's deep learning technology and application of national engineering laboratories. Zhang Bo is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and obtained a bachelor's degree in automation from Tsinghua University.
17. Wu Hua
Baidu Natural Language Processing Technology Leader
Wu Hua spent seven years at Baidu and achieved a lot of technological breakthroughs in natural language processing, dialogue systems, neural networks, and translation. The New York Times stated that her research work in multi-tasking learning was "initiative". She successfully deployed her invention to Baidu's translation products with hundreds of millions of users. Wu Hua is also responsible for the scientific and technological R&D work of Baidu artificial intelligence dialogue system “Du Weiâ€.
Wu Hua received a doctorate degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and presided over the top artificial intelligence conferences such as the International Association for Computing Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
18. Li Wei
Professor of Computer Technology, former principal of Beijing Aerospace University
In addition to Zhang Bo and Baidu executives at Tsinghua University, Li Wei was also selected to build a deep learning technology and apply a national engineering laboratory. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the former principal of Beijing Aerospace University. Li Wei has won several awards for his scientific contributions in artificial intelligence and computer networks.
Li Wei graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics of Peking University and obtained a master's degree in computer science from the University of Edinburgh.
19. Cha Hongbin
Peking University, Professor of Machine Learning
Researcher and professor Cha Hongbin, an artificial intelligence researcher at Peking University, said that China hopes to use large-scale and rapid investments in the artificial intelligence industry to overtake the United States and other Western countries. Cha Hongbin is in charge of the Key Laboratory of Machine Perception at Peking University and has collaborated with the Microsoft Asia Research Institute and the leaders of artificial intelligence in Asia. His research fields involve computer vision theory, virtual reality and robotics.
Cha Hongbin holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Hefei University of Technology and a master's degree and doctorate in electrical engineering from Kyushu University in Japan.
20. Chen Yunxi
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
In 2015, Chen Yunyi was selected as 35 Outstanding Young Innovative Persons under 35 years of age at MIT. MIT believes that it breaks the tradition. In his work he was appointed to design a deep learning processor that greatly reduces the cost of large-scale machine learning. Chen Yunxi's dream is to make all ordinary mobile phones as powerful as Google's brains.
Chen Yunyi entered the university at the age of 14, and at the age of 24 he completed his doctorate at an astonishing rate. He is now the chief designer of Godson-3. Loongson 3 is a micro-processing chip that can reduce the energy consumption of computers when recognizing objects and languages. He is also developing Cambricon, a brain-inspired processing chip that simulates human nerve cells and synapses to facilitate deep learning. The research team was led by Chen Yunzhao and his younger brother, both of whom are the youngest professors in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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