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Heung-Yeung "Harry" Shum (born in October 1966) is a computer scientist of Chinese origin. He is the Executive Vice President of the Artificial Intelligence and Research group at Microsoft. He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics, and for the development of the search engine Bing.

Early life and education
Shum grew up in Nanjing, China. He got his bachelor's degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and a master's degree from Hong Kong University. He studied at Carnegie Mellon University and earned a Ph.D. in robotics from its School of Computer Science in 1996.

Career
In 1996, Shum joined Microsoft Research in Redmond. He then moved to Microsoft Research China (later renamed Microsoft Research Asia) when it was founded in 1998. In 2004, he became the Managing Director of Microsoft Research 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. From December 2013 to September 2016, Shum served as Executive Vice President of the Technology and Research Group at Microsoft, where he was responsible for mid-term and long-term technology strategy, technology policy and forward-looking research and development efforts, in addition to leading Microsoft Research where he oversaw its integration with the engineering teams. Shum is today responsible for driving Microsoft Corporation’s overall AI strategy and forward-looking research and development efforts. In 2016, Shum prompted the formation of the Artificial Intelligence and Research group at Microsoft, an organization dedicated to infusing advances in machine learning into more intelligent services and systems. Under Harry’s leadership, the AI+R organization has infused intelligent capabilities into many of its products and services – as well as provided powerful tools to spur third-party development of AI products, while undertaking significant organizational changes to align Microsoft’s research to tackle the toughest AI challenges.

Harry Shum and Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith co-wrote the forward to Microsoft’s book, “The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society,” which explores the future of AI and is intended as a tool to help government policymakers and outlines strong ethical guidelines. Shum and Smith also argue that integrating fields like liberal arts, psychology and ethics with science, engineering and math will become critical to the future development of AI.

Research
Harry has published over 389 papers which have 33,138 citations. 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 ACM SIGGRAPH. 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. Notable publications include: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence: Learning to Detect a Salient Object, International Journal of Computer Vision: A taxonomy and evaluation of dense two-frame stereo correspondence algorithms, and International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques: Image deblurring with blurred/noisy image pairs, among many others.

Shum was named IEEE Fellow by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2006. In 2007, he was recognized as ACM Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery. In 2017, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the United States, for contributions to computer vision and computer graphics, and for leadership in industrial research and product development.

Organizations of involvement

 * Member of Advisory Board of Petuum, Inc, and serves as a member of a Member of Advisory Board of Beijing and adSage Technology Co.
 * Served on editorial board of International Journal of Computer Vision and Program Chair of the International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) in 2007.
 * Created the AETHER Committee (AI and Ethics in Engineering and Research) which consists of prominent leaders within Microsoft to address polices on the development and issues with AI in a responsible way. Harry co-created the group alongside Microsoft chief legal officer, Brad Smith.