Bio

Xuedong Huang is a Microsoft Technical Fellow in Cloud and AI. In 1993, Huang joined Microsoft to found Microsoft’s speech technology group, and has been leading Microsoft’s spoken language efforts for three decades. In addition to bringing speech to the mass market, Huang led Azure Cognitive Services in achieving several historical human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, and computer vision. He led Azure Cognitive Services from its inception, including Azure OpenAI, Speech, Computer Vision, and Language Services, to making Azure AI a leading industrial platform. Azure AI was named the winner of InfoWorld's Technology of the Year in 2021. Huang holds over 170 US patents and has published over 100 papers and 2 books. Huang is an IEEE & ACM fellow, and a recipient of Asian American Engineer of the Year Award (2011), Wired Magazine's 25 Geniuses (2016), Asian American Corporate Leadership Award (2022), and IEEE Bose Industrial Leader Award (2023). In 2023, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).