Harry Shum

Founding Chairman — IDEA Lab · Advisor — StepFun

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BS from Southeast University; MPhil from University of Hong Kong; PhD in Robotics from CMU (1996, advised by Raj Reddy). Founding member of Microsoft Research Asia (1998); EVP of Microsoft AI & Research Group (overseeing Bing, Cortana, MSR). Founded IDEA in Shenzhen (2020). IEEE Fellow (2006), ACM Fellow (2007), US NAE foreign associate (2017). HKUST Council Chairman (2023).

Affiliations

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    IDEA Lab — Founding Chairman
    Formerly: Microsoft (Executive VP); MSRA (Founding Member)
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    StepFun — Advisor
    Formerly: Microsoft (EVP); MSRA (Head)