Senior Principal Researcher and managing the Deep and Reinforcement Learning group at Microsoft Research Asia. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and an Adjunct Professor (PhD advisor) in the University of Science and Technology of China.
His team helped Microsoft achieve human parity in Chinese-English machine translation in 2018, won the first place for 8 translation tasks in WMT 2019, and built the world-best Mahjong AI, named Suphx, which achieved 10 DAN on the Tenhou platform in mid 2019.