洪小文

　　微軟全球資深副總裁

　　微軟亞太研發集團主席

　　微軟亞洲研究院院長

　　洪小文博士現任微軟全球資深副總裁，微軟亞太研發集團主席兼微軟亞洲研究院院長，全面負責微軟在亞太地區的科研及產品開發工作，以及與中國及亞太地區學術界的合作。

　　洪小文博士是電氣電子工程師學會院士(IEEE Fellow)，微軟杰出首席科學家和國際公認的語音識別專家。洪博士現任《美國計算機協會通訊》(Communications of the ACM) 的編委，并在國際著名學術刊物及大會上發表過百余篇學術論文。他參與合著的《語音技術處理》(Spoken Language Processing)一書被全世界多所大學采用為語音技術教學課本。另外，洪博士在多個技術領域擁有36項專利發明。

　　洪小文博士已在微軟公司工作了20年。他于2004年加入微軟亞洲研究院擔任副院長，與此同時，洪博士于2005年至2007年間創立并領導了搜索技術中心(STC)，該中心負責微軟搜索產品(必應)在亞太的開發工作。2007年升任微軟亞洲研究院院長，2014年兼任微軟亞太研發集團主席。

　　在加入微軟亞洲研究院之前，洪博士是微軟公司自然交互服務部門的創始成員和架構師，除了全面負責屢獲殊榮的微軟語音服務器產品、自然用戶界面平臺以及微軟協助平臺的架構及技術工作，他還負責管理和交付統計學習技術和高級搜索。洪博士于1995年加入微軟研究院美國總部任高級研究員，并為微軟的SAPI和語音引擎技術做出了突出貢獻。此前，洪博士曾任職于蘋果公司，帶領團隊研發出了蘋果中文譯寫器。

　　洪小文博士畢業于臺灣大學，獲電機工程學士學位，之后在卡內基梅隆大學深造，先后獲得計算機碩士及博士學位。

　　Hsiao-Wuen Hon

　　Corporate Vice President,

　　Chairman, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group

　　Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia

　　Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon is the Corporate Vice President, Chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, and Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. Dr. Hon oversees Microsoft’s research and development activities as well as collaborations with academia in Asia Pacific.

　　An IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Scientist of Microsoft, Dr. Hon is an internationally recognized expert in speech technology. He serves on the editorial board of the international journal Communications of the ACM. Dr. Hon has published more than 100 technical papers in international journals and at conferences. He co-authored a book, Spoken Language Processing, which is a graduate-level textbook and reference book in the area of speech technology used in many universities all over the world. Dr. Hon holds three dozen patents in several technical areas.

　　Dr. Hon has been with Microsoft since 1995. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2004 as a Deputy Managing Director, and was promoted as Managing Director in 2007. In 2014, Dr. Hon was appointed as Chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group. In addition, he founded and managed the Microsoft Search Technology Center (STC) from 2005 to 2007 and led development of the Microsoft internet Search product (Bing) in Asia Pacific.

　　Prior to joining Microsoft Research Asia, Dr. Hon was the founding member and architect of the Natural Interactive Services Division at Microsoft Corporation. Besides overseeing all architectural and technical aspects of the award winning Microsoft® Speech Server product, Natural User Interface Platform and Microsoft Assistance Platform, he is also responsible for managing and delivering statistical learning technologies and advanced search. Dr. Hon joined Microsoft Research as a senior researcher in 1995 and has been a key contributor to Microsoft's SAPI and speech engine technologies. He previously worked at Apple Computer, where he led research and development for Apple's Chinese Dictation Kit.

　　Dr. Hon received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University.