Li Shipeng, former vice president of Microsoft Research Asia, joins iFLYTEK as co-director of AI Research Institute

Annie comes from
the qubit produced by the concave temple | public account QbitAI

Xunfei AI Research Institute has recruited a new leader.

iFLYTEK has just announced that Dr. Li Shipeng, the former CTO of IngDan Technology and one of the co-founders of Microsoft Research Asia, has joined iFLYTEK as the vice president of iFLYTEK and the co-director of the AI ​​Research Institute.

After joining iFLYTEK, Li Shipeng will lead the iFLYTEK Research Institute in the exploration and innovation of AI core technologies, promote the research progress in the direction of computer vision, and be responsible for international exchanges and cooperation expansion between iFLYTEK and global universities.

In addition, qubits learned that intelligent hardware will also be a direction for Li Shipeng to start.

640?wx_fmt=png&wxfrom=5&wx_lazy=1 Dr. Li Shipeng

"Veteran" Li Shipeng

Li Shipeng, who are you? The past experience of this technology giant is remarkable.

He is a Ph.D. from Lehigh University in the United States, an expert of the National "Thousand Talents Program", an IEEE Fellow, and the Joint Secretary-General of the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance.

As the current editor-in-chief (2018-2019) of "IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Video Technology Special Issue", Shipeng Li has 195 US patents and more than 330 international papers in the fields of multimedia, Internet, computer vision, cloud computing and AI.

In addition, Li Shipeng is also a veteran who has been at Microsoft for 16 years, and has fought side by side with Li Kaifu and Zhang Yaqin.

640?wx_fmt=jpeg

In the winter of 1998, Li Shipeng and Zhang Yaqin worked for Sarnoff Corporation in the United States at the same time. When Zhang Yaqin decided to return to China to establish Microsoft Research Asia, Li Shipeng saw the inadequacies and huge opportunities of domestic research.

In 1999, Li Shipeng became one of the co-founders of Microsoft Research Asia. This stay is 16 years, and Li Shipeng's titles are getting richer and richer: chief researcher, vice president of Microsoft Research Asia, partner of Microsoft...

640?wx_fmt=jpeg Li Shipeng (right) and Gates (left)

In 2015, "Veteran" Li Shipeng left Microsoft to serve as CTO of Ingdan Technology, and founded Ingdan Lab, which focuses on cutting-edge innovations in IoT and AI.

Today, three years later, Li Shipeng turned again and joined iFlytek.

Founded in 2005, iFLYTEK AI Research Institute involves in AI research directions including speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language processing, speech evaluation, voiceprint recognition, handwriting recognition, face recognition, image recognition, voice interaction, machine translation, medical cognition, judicial cognition, etc.

It remains to be seen what changes Li Shipeng will bring to the institute.

The author is the signing author of Netease News Netease account "each with its own attitude"


-End- _ _

join the community

The qubit AI community 16 groups have begun to recruit. Students who are interested in AI are welcome to add a small assistant WeChat qbitbot6 to join the group;


In addition, qubit professional sub-groups ( autonomous driving, CV, NLP, machine learning , etc.) are recruiting for engineers and researchers who are engaged in related fields.


To join the group, please add a small assistant WeChat account qbitbot6, and be sure to note the keywords of the corresponding group~ After passing the review, we will invite you to join the group. (Professional group review is stricter, please understand)

Sincere recruitment

Qubit is recruiting editors/reporters to work in Zhongguancun, Beijing. We look forward to having talented and enthusiastic students to join us! For relevant details, please reply to the word "recruitment" on the QbitAI dialogue interface.

640?wx_fmt=jpeg

Qubit  QbitAI · Toutiao signed author

վ'ᴗ' ի Track new developments in AI technology and products


Guess you like

Origin http://43.154.161.224:23101/article/api/json?id=325729005&siteId=291194637