Weizhu Chen
Vice President at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWeizhu Chen is a seasoned AI and software leader, currently Vice President at Microsoft, steering Azure AI Science on Large Models and NLP. Chen brings a decade of experience at Microsoft in roles ranging from Partner Science Manager to Principal Science Manager, guiding large-scale ML and NLP initiatives. Earlier, Chen led a team building a conversational bot for technical and customer support using deep learning and NLP. Chen also managed a distributed machine learning library on cloud-scale clusters, ScopeML on Cosmos. Chen's research roots trace back to Microsoft Research Asia and IBM Research, focusing on click models, user search behavior, and distributed ML. Based in Redmond, WA, Chen earned a PhD in Computer Science from HKUST, blending rigorous academic training with production-ready cloud engineering.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (6)
stochastic10
machine-learning7
parallel7
camp5
synthesis5
dataflow3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zhangyuc/splash
Apr 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:152 commits, 2 PRs, 191 pushes in 2 years 2 months
stochasticmachine-learningsplashparallel
zhangyuc/sempre
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
executionsemanticparser
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