Tang Xiao'ou

Tang Xiao’ou (Chinese: 湯曉鷗; born 1968) is a Chinese billionaire computer scientist and founder of SenseTime, an artificial intelligence (AI) company. He is also a Professor of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[1]

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tang.
Tang Xiao’ou
Born1968 (age 54–55)
Anshan, Liaoning, China
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China (BS)
University of Rochester (MS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
AwardsBest Paper Award IEEE Conference on CVPR 2009
Scientific career
Fieldsartificial intelligence
InstitutionsChinese University of Hong Kong
WebsiteCUHK: Tang Xiao’ou
SenseTime

Biography

Tang studied at the University of Science and Technology of China and graduated with a B.S. degree in computer science in 1990. He then travelled to America and acquired an Master of Science degree from the University of Rochester in 1991, along with a doctorate in computer vision from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996.[2]

After graduation, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia from 2005 till 2008.[3] Tang then co-founded SenseTime with Xu Li in 2014.[4] Upon SenseTime's IPO in December 2021, Tang was estimated to have a net worth of approximately $3.4 billion.[5] He currently serves as Associate Dean of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[3]

Honors and awards

Tang is an IEEE fellow and a general chair of the ICCV in 2009. He is a former editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).[6] Tang received Best Paper Award at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2009.[6] He spearheaded the first facial recognition to beat human accuracy.[3]

References
  1. "HKSTP: Tang Xiao'ou". Archived from the original on 2019-01-02.
  2. "The multifaceted applications of SenseTime's AI algorithms". KrASIA. 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
  3. "Prof. Tang Xiaoou, Sean 湯曉鷗教授". www.ie.cuhk.edu.hk. Archived from the original on 2021-11-04. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  4. "SenseTime". Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation. Archived from the original on 2020-12-05.
  5. Feng, Venus (2021-12-28). "Chinese Professor Lands $3.4 Billion Fortune With SenseTime IPO". finance.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-28.
  6. "CAS: Tang Xiao'ou". Archived from the original on 2020-09-25.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.