Introduction to Shen Xiangyang's personal data and resume
On November 14, Microsoft CEO Satya & middot; Satya NADELLA announced on Wednesday us time that Harry Shum, Microsoft's global executive vice president, had resigned. According to Microsoft official information, Microsoft CTO Kevin & middot; Kevin Scott will succeed Shen Xiangyang, and the change will take effect immediately. At present, the future of Shen Xiangyang is unknown.
Shen Xiangyang received his doctorate in 1996, joined Microsoft in the same year and participated in the establishment of Microsoft Asia Research Institute two years later. Microsoft is the only enterprise to work after graduation, and has been working for 23 years. During this period, he has experienced Microsoft Research Asia, Bing search team and senior management team. Since 2016, he has served as the global executive vice president of artificial intelligence and Microsoft Research Division, leading the overall strategy and R & D related to artificial intelligence. It is worth mentioning that AI and Microsoft's research division are at the same level as Microsoft's office department, windows department and cloud & enterprise department.
It is said that when Shen Xiangyang was promoted to the global executive vice president of Microsoft in 2013, he became the highest level Chinese employee of American technology companies after Lu Qi, and was Steve & middot in 2014; Steve Ballmer is a popular candidate to take over as CEO of Microsoft when he retires.
Shen Xiangyang is a pioneer and supporter of interactive computer vision research. He has published more than 200 papers in international conferences and journals, most of which focus on computer graphics and computer vision.
NADELLA praised Shen Xiangyang and said: "Shen Xiangyang has brought far-reaching influence to Microsoft. His contribution has laid a solid foundation and left valuable wealth for future innovation in computer science and AI. I thank him for all he has done for Microsoft. "
According to Shen Xiangyang's internal letters to employees obtained by several overseas media, Shen Xiangyang said: 'leaving Microsoft is the most difficult decision in my life. Microsoft has been very successful, but at this stage of my life, it's time to start a new chapter. Now it's time to explore new challenges beyond Microsoft and the business level and consider what more I can do for the industry and the next generation of computing science. "
In March this year, the news center on Microsoft's official website published Shen Xiangyang's article "Microsoft Shen Xiangyang's Autobiography: seven lessons in my career". Now it seems that at that time, the article has revealed the signal that Shen Xiangyang will end his career at Microsoft.
It is reported that Shen Xiangyang's official departure time is early 2020. After leaving, he will continue to serve as Satya & middot, CEO of Microsoft; NADELLA and Microsoft founder Bill & middot; An adviser to Bill Gates.