(JW Insights) Jul 26 -- Jiang Daxin, Microsoft’s global partner, vice president, and former chief scientist, was reported to have left his previous company and started his own business in the field of AI large models in Shanghai, Pandaily reported on July 24.

Two former colleagues from Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) will join him. One is a prominent figure in the field of AI and a flag-bearer for Chinese employees at Microsoft, while the other is a young and promising CEO of a well-known AI unicorn.

Jiang has extensive experience and engineering expertise in fields such as machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, and bioinformatics. To date, he has published over 100 papers with nearly 10,000 citations.

Jiang Daxin obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees respectively from the University of Science and Technology of China and the Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences. He got a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2005.

Jiang Daxin spent 16 years at Microsoft from March 2007 to 2023. He worked at MSRA for four years, responsible for applied research in fields such as data mining, machine learning, and information retrieval.

During his time at MSRA, Jiang published multiple papers at conferences such as SIGKDD, SIGIR, WWW, and WSDM. He received the Best Application Paper Award at SIGKDD 2008 and also served as associate editor and PC member for several journals and conferences.

Jiang Daxin began his career at Microsoft Software Technology Center Asia(STCA) in 2011, and was promoted to Microsoft global partner, vice dean of STCA, and chief scientist after six years.

In March 2023, Jiang Daxin was officially appointed to vice president of Microsoft as well as the general manager of WebXT S+D (Web Experience, Search, and Distribution) Group at STCA. His team mainly focused on developing algorithms and infrastructure for Microsoft Bing. They also provided NLP models and algorithms for various Microsoft products such as Office, Xbox, and Microsoft Cognitive Services, said the Pandaily report.

(Yuan XY/Gao J)