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Harry Shum Heung-yeung

Harry Shum Heung-yeung
The latest news and top stories on Harry Shum Heung-yeung, a distinguished computer scientist with extensive experience in artificial intelligence. Formerly executive vice president of AI & research at Microsoft, he led the company’s overall AI strategy, R&D efforts and oversaw Microsoft Research. His career at Microsoft, spanning nearly 24 years, also included significant contributions to computer vision, computer graphics and the development of the Bing search engine. He is an elected Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. Currently, he serves as Council Chairman of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University, continuing to comment on global AI advancements.
Hong Kong economy

New research institute to ramp up efforts as Hong Kong pursues ‘AI for all’

Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Institute’s first meeting will be held as early as this month to formulate city’s AI road map.

HKUST pledges to invest more than HK$7 billion into third medical school project

China catching up fast with US in algorithms: ex-Microsoft AI head

While the US is still far ahead in AI chip technology, China is following very closely in algorithms, says computer scientist Harry Shum.

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