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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 in a society that was in the midst of change in the 1960s. It was a decade of monumental technological advancements and saw the emergence of new computing systems and languages. He got his bachelor's degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and a master's degree from Hong Kong University. His father encouraged him to pursue studies in computer science, which motivated him to move to the US and get a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University 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. In 2013, he took on the responsibilities as Microsoft's Executive Vice President, Technology & Research including oversight of Microsoft Research. In 2016, he took lead of Microsoft's newly-formed Artificial Intelligence and Research group. Under Harry's leadership, the Artificial Intelligence and Research group at Microsoft combined advances in machine learning with delivering more intelligent services with the goal of democratizing artificial intelligence and bringing intelligent capabilities to systems that everyone uses. Innovation in language and dialogue, human computer interaction and computer vision lead to advances in Cortana and has made it possible for enterprises to use, or experiment with, trained neural networks for AI tooling including Seeing AI, Presentation Translator for PowerPoint, and a new Bing Entity Search API.
 * A new AI-focused venture fund was established, taking a stake in AI incubator Element AI and acquiring deep learning research pioneer Maluuba.
 * Nearly 500 million Windows 10 users take advantage of built-in AI capabilities, while Office 365 has more than 100 million commercial users that access AI-powered tools to make them more creative and productive.
 * There are more than 568,000 developers from more than 60 countries using Microsoft Cognitive Services and implementing AI technology into their own products and service.
 * More than 145 million people use the intelligence of Cortana, while Bing powers one-third of all U.S. searches and gives those people more intelligent ways to search and discover.
 * More than 100 million people interact with Microsoft chatbots Xiaoice, Rinna, Zo, and Ruuh.
 * Speech Recognition Record: Using the Cognitive Toolkit, Microsoft researchers reported in late August a word error rate (WER) of 5.1 percent, down from the 5.9 percent WER the team shared in October 2016
 * Microsoft is building the world’s first AI supercomputer using FPGAs running in the Microsoft Cloud. Using a single node of the FPGA fabric it can translate War and Peace, all 1440 pages, from Russian to English in just two and a half seconds. The new Brainwave architecture sustains execution of over 130,000 compute operations per cycle, driven by one macro-instruction being issued each 10 cycles.
 * In January 2018, a team at Microsoft Research Asia reached the human parity milestone using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset, known among researchers as SQuAD. It’s a machine reading comprehension dataset that is made up of questions about a set of Wikipedia articles.

Research
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 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.

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.