Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures (www.sinovationventures.com/) and Chairman of the AI Institute at Sinovation Ventures. Sinovation Ventures, managing investment funds of 2 billion dollars, is a leading venture capital firm focused on developing the next generation of high-tech Chinese companies. Before founding Sinovation in 2009, Dr. Lee was President of Google China. Previously, he held executive positions at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. Dr. Lee received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Columbia University, his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as honorary doctorates from both Carnegie Mellon University and the City University of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Times 100 in 2013, WIRED 25 Icons, Asian Business Leader 2018 by Asia House, and is followed by over 50 million people on social media
In the field of artificial intelligence, Dr. Lee created one of the first game programs that defeated a world champion (1988, Othello), as well as the first large-vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech recognition system. Dr. Lee founded Microsoft Research China, which was named the most important research lab by MIT Technology Review. Later renamed Microsoft Research Asia, this institute trained the vast majority of AI leaders in China, including the CTOs or heads of AI at Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Lenovo, Huawei, and Haier. While at Apple, Dr. Lee led AI projects in speech and natural language, which have appeared on Good Morning America on ABC Television and on the cover of the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of 10 US patents and over 100 papers in journals and conferences. In total, Dr. Lee has been involved in research, development, and investment in artificial intelligence for over 30 years. His book AI Superpowers (aisuperpowers.com), a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, discusses the joint leadership between the United States and China in the AI era, as well as the major social impacts caused by the AI technology revolution.
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