Harry Shum

1966

He is the Executive Vice President, Technology & at Microsoft. He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics, and for the development of web search engine Bing. He got his bachelor"s degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and a master"s degree from Hong Kong University. In 1996, Shum joined Microsoft in Redmond. He then moved to Microsoft China (later renamed Microsoft Asia) when it was founded in 1998. In 2004, he became the Managing Director of Microsoft Asia. In 2006, he was promoted to Distinguished Engineer of Microsoft Corporation. In 2007, he became Corporate Vice President of Bing Product Development at Microsoft. In 2013, he took on the responsibilities as Microsoft"s Executive Vice President, Technology & including oversight of Microsoft Shum has published over 200 papers at international conferences and journals. Most of them are focused on computer graphics and computer vision. He is a pioneer and proponent of research on interactive computer vision. He has published many important interactive computer vision papers on Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. He was also active in Image-based modeling and rendering, which is an important field in realistic computer graphics. In recent years, since he worked on Bing he has been active in web search and data mining research. Shum was named Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2006. In 2007, he was recognized as Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to computer vision and computer graphics.

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Shum grew up in Nanjing, China.

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He studied at Carnegie Mellon University and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in robotics from its School of Computer Science in 1996.

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He is the Executive Vice President, Technology & at Microsoft. He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics, and for the development of web search engine Bing. He got his bachelor"s degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and a master"s degree from Hong Kong University.

In 1996, Shum joined Microsoft in Redmond.

He then moved to Microsoft China (later renamed Microsoft Asia) when it was founded in 1998. In 2004, he became the Managing Director of Microsoft Asia.

In 2006, he was promoted to Distinguished Engineer of Microsoft Corporation. In 2007, he became Corporate Vice President of Bing Product Development at Microsoft.

In 2013, he took on the responsibilities as Microsoft"s Executive Vice President, Technology & including oversight of Microsoft

Shum has published over 200 papers at international conferences and journals.

Most of them are focused on computer graphics and computer vision. He is a pioneer and proponent of research on interactive computer vision. He has published many important interactive computer vision papers on Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. He was also active in Image-based modeling and rendering, which is an important field in realistic computer graphics.

In recent years, since he worked on Bing he has been active in web search and data mining research.

Shum was named Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2006. In 2007, he was recognized as Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to computer vision and computer graphics.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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