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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. In 2013, he took on the responsibilities as Microsoft's Executive Vice President, Technology & Research including oversight of Microsoft Research. . Since 2016, he has been Microsoft's Executive Vice President for the AI & Research Group, leading the overall strategy and R&D efforts in AI while continuing oversight of Microsoft Research.

The Artificial Intelligence and Research group was founded in 2016 as a fourth Microsoft engineering division, alongside the Office, Windows and Cloud & Enterprise divisions, with 5,000 people, under Harry Shum as the lead. By 2017, the group had grown to 8,000 people in what was described by GeekWire as a "massive bet on Artificial Intelligence". The goal of the group was to democratize artificial intelligence and bring intelligent capabilities to systems that everyone uses.

Shum's team pursued innovation in language and dialogue, human computer interaction and computer vision that make it possible for enterprises to use, or experiment with, trained neural networks for AI tooling. Those innovations were used in Microsoft products such as Seeing AI and Presentation Translator for PowerPoint. The Bing Entity Search API enabled developers to implement Microsoft AI technologies into their own apps, products and services. Shum expanded Microsoft's investment in AI by establishing an AI-focused venture fund, taking a stake in AI incubator Element AI and acquiring deep learning research pioneer Maluuba.

Shum and Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith co-wrote the foreword to Microsoft’s book, “The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its role in society,” which explores the future of AI as a tool to help government policymakers and outlines ethical guidelines for AI. 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. Shum and Smith also created the AETHER (AI and Ethics in Engineering and Research) Committee which consists of prominent leaders within Microsoft to address polices on the development and issues with AI in a responsible way.

Research and awards
Shum has published over 452 papers which have 45,141 citations. Most 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.

Other 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.

Shum served on the editorial board of International Journal of Computer Vision and Program Chair of the International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV) in 2007.

In 2011, he received the Asian-American Executive of the Year award from Chinese Institute of Engineers/USA and the 2011 Asian American Engineer of Year Executive Committee.

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.

In 2017, he was named an Honorary University Fellow at The University of Hong Kong where he was an adjunct professor of computer science and remains involved.

In 2018, he was elected an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK.