Xuedong Huang

Xuedong D. Huang (born October 20, 1962) is a Chinese American computer scientist and technology executive who has made contributions to spoken language processing and AI Cognitive Services. He is currently Microsoft's Technical Fellow and Chief Technology Officer overseeing Microsoft Azure AI Cognitive Services engineering and research, covering Microsoft's four AI pillars in Speech, Computer Vision, Natural Language, and Decision.

Xuedong Huang
in 2017
Born (1962-10-20) October 20, 1962
China
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materEdinburgh University, Tsinghua University, Hunan University
AwardsACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Wired Magazine 25 Geniuses, Asian American Engineer of the Year, IEEE Paper Award, Allen Newell Research Excellence Medal
Scientific career
FieldsSpeech Recognition, Machine translation, Natural Language Processing, AI, Software Development
InstitutionsMicrosoft, Carnegie Mellon University

Education

Huang received his BS from Hunan University in 1982, his MS from Tsinghua University in 1984, and his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1989.

Career

After receiving his PhD in 1989, Huang joined Carnegie Mellon University and worked with Raj Reddy and Kai-Fu Lee on speech recognition. At CMU, he directed Sphinx-II speech system research and achieved the best performance in every category of DARPA's 1992 benchmarking. Microsoft Research recruited him to found and lead Microsoft's spoken language initiatives in 1993. His co-authored book Spoken Language Processing[1] with Alex Acero and Hsiao-Wuen Hon and his Historical speech recognition review[2] with Raj Reddy and James K. Baker succinctly summarized several generations of spoken language research. As Microsoft's Mr. Speech for nearly three decades, Huang has been instrumental in creating Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI), shipping Microsoft Speech Server, and modernizing spoken language and integrative AI services [3][4][5][6] with Azure AI Cognitive Services,[7] which not only enabled numerous 3rd party customers but also powered up Microsoft's own AI scenarios in Windows, Office, Teams,[8] and Flight Simulator.[9] Huang helped Azure AI achieving multiple industry's first human parity milestones such as transcribing conversational speech,[10] machine translation,[11] conversational QnA,[12] and image captioning.[13]

Huang has made contributions to the software and AI industry not only by his executive leadership but also through his scientific publications and inventing more than 170 US patents that impacted millions customers globally through Azure AI. Wired magazine named him one of 25 Geniuses.[14]

Huang was awarded the Allen Newell research excellence medal in 1992, and IEEE Speech Processing Best Paper in 1993. He was recognized as IEEE Fellow by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2000, and named ACM Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery in 2017.[15]

Customer story of Azure AI
  • Aberdeen City Council in Scotland answers calls for customer service [16]
  • Airbus accelerated innovation [17]
  • Automation Anywhere uses Azure AI to support UK healthcare provider’s COVID-19 response [18]
  • BBC reads its articles and enables "Beeb" assistant [19][20]
  • CDC launches coronavirus bot to help take strain off healthcare system [21][22]
  • DLA Piper and Wilson Allen are driving innovation in the legal industry [23][24]
  • Dentsu Aegis Network uses Azure AI to support global clients like General Motors, P&G and Kraft Heinz [25]
  • EU brings the parliament closer to citizens with Azure live speech translation [26]
  • GE rapidly converts customers’ paper-based records into digital formats [27]
  • Konica Minolta effectively handles user inquiries increased due to rise of teleworking [28]
  • KPMG helps financial institutions save millions in compliance costs [29]
  • Looney Tunes: American's iconic character Looney Tunes now speak with Azure voice via ATT 5G[30]
  • Microsoft AI for Good,[31][32] Accessibility,[33] and Cultural Heritage [34]
  • Minsur Mine operator increases sustainability by applying custom computer vision [35]
  • Motorola Solutions helps first responders using just their voice [36]
  • NHS leads innovation with Azure AI [37]
  • NYC is fulfilling consistent societal needs [38][39]
  • Progressive insurance shoppers gain new service channel [40]
  • Reliance Jio partners with Azure Cognitive Services to expand Indian languages [41][42]
  • RXR Realty reopens for business to empower tenant safety [43]
  • Swisscom uses Azure to drive innovation, market leadership with multilingual voice assistant[44]
  • TIBCO takes anomaly detection to the edge [45]
  • TruGreen’s take on AI is a catalyst for greener lawns and happier customers [46]
  • Uber boosts platform security with facial recognition [47]
  • University of Nottingham empowers remote research and learning [48]
  • Vodafone transformed its customer care strategy [49]
  • Volkswagen engages global customers with real-time translation [50]
  • Walgreens customer service now on Microsoft Azure AI [51]

References
  1. Spoken Language Processing, Prentice Hall 2001 Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon
  2. A Historical Perspective of Speech Recognition Xuedong Huang, James Baker, Raj Reddy. Communications of the ACM, January 2014, Vol. 57 No. 1, Pages 94-103.
  3. Azure OCR Benchmark
  4. Stanford's Speech Transcription Bias Study in 2020
  5. LREC 2020 German Speech Benchmark
  6. XYZ-Code: A holistic representation toward integrative AI, Microsoft AI blog
  7. Azure AI Cognitive Services
  8. Microsoft 365 build on Azure AI
  9. Microsoft's new flight simulator used Cognitive Services voice
  10. Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition October 18, 2016 | Allison Linn
  11. Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English March 14, 2018 | Allison Linn
  12. Machine Reading Systems Are Becoming More Conversational May 2019
  13. What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do Oct 14, 2020 | John Roach
  14. 25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business 04.26.2016
  15. People of ACM - Xuedong Huang July 25, 2017
  16. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/836627-aberdeencity
  17. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/858578-airbus-defense-and-intelligence-azure
  18. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/811346-automation-anywhere-partner-professional-services-azure-cognitive-services
  19. https://www.npr.org/2020/11/26/939286983/bbc-launches-artificial-intelligence-tool-to-read-its-articles-to-listeners
  20. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/754836-bbc-media-entertainment-azure
  21. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/cdc-coronavirus-bot-take-strain-off-healthcare-system
  22. https://news.microsoft.com/transform/how-international-health-care-organizations-are-using-bots-to-help-fight-covid-19/
  23. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/781393-dla-piper-professional-services-microsoft365
  24. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/814361-wilson-allen-partner-professional-services-azure
  25. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/854109-dentsu
  26. https://blogs.microsoft.com/eupolicy/2020/09/15/bringing-european-parliament-closer-citizens-through-ai/
  27. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/846315-ge-aviation-manufacturing-azure
  28. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/859370-konica-minolta-manufacturing-azure-en-japan
  29. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/754840-kpmg-partner-professional-services-azure
  30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeI7Aaf7hk&feature=emb_logo
  31. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/ai-for-good
  32. Canadian AI Forum 2020 video
  33. Azure AI for Accessibility
  34. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/translator/blog/2019/11/21/kia-ora-te-reo-maori/
  35. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/minsur-artifical-intelligence-azure-cognitive-services-machine-learning-mining-oil-arkano-peru
  36. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/792324-motorola-solutions-manufacturing-azure-bot-service
  37. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/825757-nhsbsa
  38. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/839880-new-york-city-government-azure-en-unitedstates
  39. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/778859-the-young-womens-leadership-school-of-astoria-education-azure
  40. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/789698-progressive-insurance-cognitive-services-insurance
  41. https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/12/reliance-jio-broadband-blockchain-iot-microsoft/
  42. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/microsoft-adds-five-new-indian-languages-to-its-microsoft-translator-service/article31355525.ece
  43. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/843823-rxr-realty-reopens-for-business-using-azure-iot
  44. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/821105-swisscom-telecommunications-azure-cognitive-services
  45. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/811324-tibco-partner-professional-services-azure
  46. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/759484-trugreen-partner-professional-services-power-virtual-agents
  47. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/731196-uber
  48. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/840994-university-of-nottingham-higher-education-azure-teams
  49. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/838350-vodafone-telecom-azure-cognitive-services
  50. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/#customer-stories
  51. https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/812836-walgreens-boots-alliance-retailers-azure-bot-service-cognitive-services
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