Shen Xiangyang: It is time to open a new chapter.
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In the email sent to colleagues, Shen Xiangyang said, “It is time to open a new chapter; to explore new challenges beyond Microsoft and beyond business; to think about the industry, for the next generation of computing science. Researchers and engineers can do more.” Nadella’s all day’s emails highly affirmed Shen Xiangyang’s contribution to Microsoft. “Harry (Shen Xiangyang) has a profound influence on Microsoft. He is The contributions of computer science and artificial intelligence have left a legacy and a solid foundation for future innovation.”
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For more than 23 years at Microsoft, Shen Xiangyang, executive vice president of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence research department, is about to leave in February next year. On the morning of the 13th, Microsoft CEO Nadella announced the news in the form of all internal mail.
Shen Xiangyang’s departure from Microsoft is somewhat surprising. In the large-scale organizational restructuring that Microsoft carried out three years ago, Shen Xiangyang officially became the leader of the 5,000-person Microsoft artificial intelligence research department. The technology giant responsible for this trillion-dollar market capitalization will explore the AI field in the future.
From a researcher all the way to Microsoft’s top management, Shen Xiangyang’s professional resume at Microsoft is gorgeous, but no matter how many job promotions and business changes, every time I sit on Tencent’s “Peeping” A face-to-face interview with Shen Xiangyang, a label that he can never pick up is a “researcher”. You can still feel the most simple curiosity and excitement about the unknown from him. More than once, he will suddenly feel good. Seriously and seriously said: “To treat AI, we must remain awe.”
In the email sent to colleagues on the same day, Shen Xiangyang deeply reviewed the 20-year career he spent at Microsoft and said, “It is time to open a new chapter; to explore beyond Microsoft and beyond business. New challenges; think about what else can be done by researchers and engineers in the field of computing science for the next generation.”
NoIt is difficult to guess that the next stop of Shen Xiangyang’s career, whether in industry or academia, will still choose the field of research he has been cultivating for many years.
Suddenly leaving, Next stop to become a mystery
Nadella’s all-day mail affirmed Shen Xiangyang’s contribution to Microsoft. He said, “Harry (Sun Xiangyang) has a profound influence on Microsoft. He is in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. Contributions leave a legacy and a solid foundation for future innovation. I want to thank him for his leadership and partnership, and what he has done for Microsoft.”
This email said that Shen Xiangyang’s current position will be replaced by the company’s chief technology officer Kevin Scott, which will take effect immediately. Shen Xiangyang’s final date of separation is February 1, 2020, and the email does not disclose that Shen Xiangyang’s departure from Microsoft. The destination of the next stop.
Microsoft CEO Nadella sends a message to announce the departure of Shen Xiangyang
Shen Xiangyang said in a farewell letter sent to Microsoft colleagues on the same day that leaving Microsoft was his “hardest decision in his life” and said that it is time to open a new chapter; to explore beyond Microsoft, Beyond the new challenges of business; think about what else can be done for researchers and engineers in the field of computing science for the next generation.
The information revealed in his farewell letter is not difficult to speculate. The 53-year-old Shen Xiangyang’s career is far from over. An industry insider interviewed by Tencent News’s “Plough” speculated that he relied on him. In the field of AI, the status and influence of Shen Xiangyang is likely to remain in the industry or return to academia, but he will still choose his own research field for many years as the starting point for his next career.
Starting from the researcher to the top of Microsoft
Shen Xiangyang completed his Ph.D. in robotics from the Computer Science Academy of Carnegie Mellon University and joined Microsoft headquarters in 1996 as a researcher. In 1998, he went to Beijing to participate in the Microsoft China Research Institute with Li Kaifu and Zhang Yaqin. The institute was renamed Microsoft Research Asia. In the following nine years, he was research manager and assistant dean. He was promoted to the Dean and Chief Scientist of Microsoft Research Asia.
Before Microsoft had a series of job titles, Shen Xiangyang was an academic researcher who has published more than 200 papers in international conferences and academic journals. His main research