Beibei Shi, Microsoft Research Asia
Beibei Shi is senior research program manager at Microsoft Research Asia, taking the responsibility of MSR Asia Open Collaborative Research Program and StarTrack Program, as well as university relations between MSR Asia and universities in Central China, South China, China Hongkong and Taiwan. Besides, she takes the responsibility of the strategic cooperation between Microsoft Research Asia and the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. She focuses on the research theme of Resilience and Trust, has successfully led several open collaborative research sub-themes establishment with related MSR Asia research team, such as AIER Platform, OpenNetLab, Computing for Carbon Negative and Responsible AI.
Before joined MSR Asia, she joined IBM Research China Institute as a researcher in the cross field of environment and computer, after earned master’s degree in environmental science school of China Agricultural University in 2019. Then, she joined the University Partnership Department of IBM China as a program manager. During that period, she participated to design and led to execute industry-academic cooperative research program “green horizon plan”, making very solid contribution to technology innovation of air pollution control.
Diyi Yang, Stanford University
Diyi Yang is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. Professor Yang’s research interests are Computational Social Science and Natural Language Processing. Her research goal is to understand the social aspects of language and then build socially aware NLP systems to better support human-human and human-computer interaction. Professor Yang received her PhD from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and her bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her work has received multiple best paper nominations or awards at ICWSM, EMNLP, SIGCHI, ACL, and CSCW. She is a recipient of Forbes 30 under 30 in Science, IEEE “AI 10 to Watch”, the Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, and NSF CAREER Award.
Fangzhao Wu, Microsoft Research Asia
Fangzhao Wu is now a researcher at Social Computing group, Microsoft Research Asia. His research mainly focuses on responsible AI, especially LLM safety, privacy, copyright, and social impact.
Fred Jiang, Microsoft Research Asia
Mr. Fred Jiang is currently the Outreach Director at MSRA Industry Innovation Center. As the founder of Innovation Partnership Program in MSRA, he has been responsible for external partnership and promoted the establishment of MSRA Innovation Program since he joined MSRA in 2015. Mr. Fred Jiang Feng has been deeply involved in AI-enabled digital transformation with industry partners in different domains, including financial, manufacturing, healthcare, education, logistics, retail, etc.
Prior to joining MSRA, Mr. Fred Jiang was the Business Development Manager in Microsoft Smart Things, where he was responsible for partnerships with companies in Greater China.
Mr. Fred Jiang has extensive practical experience in software and hardware development in Nokia. He has served as senior product program manager in Nokia product innovation center and as R&D manager in Nokia Research Center Shenzhen.
Legend Zhu, Microsoft Garage Lead, GCR
Legend holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Shanghai University and a MBA degree from Fudan University. He has 19 years of working experience in Microsoft Greater China, and is currently the head of the Garage in Greater China, responsible for driving Microsoft’s innovation culture. He has rich experience in corporate innovation, startups incubation & acceleration, ecosystem construction, industrial innovation empowerment, and talent enablement. In the past, when he was the director of Microsoft Innovation Alliance, he established an innovation center in Suzhou Industrial Park, led the team to serve more than 200 tech startups in four years, with a total valuation of more than 30 billion RMB and financing of more than 9 billion RMB. In his role as the Microsoft Accelerator Success Manager, he was responsible for the co-selling between startups with Microsoft for accelerating their growth. During his tenure as the readiness business partner of Microsoft Greater China, he has accumulated rich experience in organizational transformation and employee enablement. He was the main founder and executor of Microsoft China University. Prior to joining Microsoft, he served as General Manager of China at Global Knowledge, where he had many years of technical and management experience. Photography is Legend’s biggest personal hobby in his spare time.
Xiaoyuan Yi, Microsoft Research Asia
I am currently a researcher at Social Computing Group in Microsoft Research Asia. I received my Ph.D. and B.S. degrees both from the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University in 2021 and 2016, respectively. My research interest is Natural Language Generation (NLG), which mainly covers:
- Responsible NLG (e.g., debiasing and interpretability in NLG);
- Creative NLG (e.g., automatic generation of literary and artistic text, like poetry and story);
- Intelligent Writing (using NLG methods to assist and empower human writing).
As the leading contributor, I developed the online classical Chinese poetry generation system Jiuge (九歌) (V1.0~V3.0) at Tsinghua University. I have published some academic papers on top-tier international conferences, including AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP and CoNLL. I also serve as a program committee member for several conferences such as ACL, AAAI, NLPCC and CCL.
Xing Xie, Microsoft Research Asia
Dr. Xing Xie is a partner research manager at Microsoft Research Asia. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. Since joining Microsoft Research Asia in July 2001, Dr. Xie has focused on data mining, social computing, and responsible AI. His work has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the IEEE MDM 2023 Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGKDD 2022 Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGKDD China 2021 Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020 10-Year Impact Award Honorable Mention, and ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 10-Year Impact Award. He has delivered keynote speeches at notable conferences such as MDM 2019, ASONAM 2017, and W2GIS 2011. Dr. Xie serves on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, ACM Transactions on Social Computing, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, and CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction. He served as program co-chair of ACM Ubicomp 2011, PCC 2012, UIC 2015, SMP 2017, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022, IEEE MDM 2022, PAKDD 2024, and IEEE BigData 2025. Dr. Xie is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and China Computer Federation.