Xuedong Huang

 ( 1962 Births ) 

Xuedong David Huang (born October 20, 1962) is a Chinese American computer scientist and technology executive who has made contributions to spoken language processing and artificial intelligence, including Azure AI Services. He is Zoom's chief technology officer after serving as Microsoft's Technical Fellow and Azure AI Chief Technology Officer for 30 years. Huang is a strong advocate of AI for Accessibility, and AI for Cultural Heritage.

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Education Huang received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 (sponsored by the British ORS and Edinburgh University Scholarship), his MS from Tsinghua University in 1984, and BS from Hunan University in 1982.

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Career After receiving his PhD in 1989, Huang joined Carnegie Mellon University and worked with Raj Reddy and Kai-Fu Lee on speech recognition. At CMU, he directed the Sphinx-II speech system research which achieved the best performance in every category of DARPA's 1992 benchmarking. Microsoft Research recruited him to found and lead Microsoft's spoken language initiatives in 1993. His co-authored book Spoken Language Processing Spoken Language Processing, Prentice Hall 2001 Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon and his Historical speech recognition review A Historical Perspective of Speech Recognition Xuedong Huang, James Baker, Raj Reddy. Communications of the ACM, January 2014, Vol. 57 No. 1, Pages 94-103. succinctly summarize several generations of spoken language research. As Microsoft's Mr. Speech for three decades, Huang has been instrumental in creating Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI), shipping Microsoft Speech Server, and modernizing spoken language and integrative AI services Stanford's Speech Transcription Bias Study in 2020 XYZ-Code: A holistic representation toward integrative AI, Microsoft AI blog via Azure AI, Azure AI Cognitive Services which not only enables millions of 3rd party customers but also powers up Microsoft's Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams, and Azure OpenAI Services.

Huang helped Microsoft and Azure Cognitive Services achieve multiple industry's first human parity milestones on the following open research tasks: transcribing conversational speech, Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition October 18, 2016 | Allison Linn machine translation, Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English March 14, 2018 | Allison Linn conversational QnA, Machine Reading Systems Are Becoming More Conversational May 2019 and computer vision image captioning. What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do Oct 14, 2020 | John Roach

Huang has made significant contributions to the software and AI industry through his executive leadership and his scientific publications, owning more than 170 US patents and impacting billions through Azure AI enabled products and services. In 2016, Wired magazine named him one of 25 Geniuses. 25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business 04.26.2016 In 2021, Azure AI was named the winner of InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Award.

Huang was awarded the Allen Newell research excellence medal in 1992, and IEEE Speech Processing Best Paper in 1993. He was recognized as an IEEE Fellow by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2000, named ACM Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery in 2017, People of ACM - Xuedong Huang July 25, 2017 and a member of Washington State Academy of Sciences. Huang received 2022 Asian American Corporate Leadership Award, and IEEE Amar Bose Industrial Leader Award. In 2023, he was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), National Academy of Engineering Elects 106 Members and 18 International Members Feb 7, 2023 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Members Elected in 2023: American Academy of Arts and Sciences April 19, 2023

Huang joined Zoom at June, 2023 as CTO.

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