From 2006 to 2065438+September 2004, he served as the global senior vice president of Microsoft Corporation and the chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, responsible for Microsoft's scientific research and product development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Zhang Yaqin joined Baidu Company from 2065438+September 2004 as the president, responsible for emerging business.
Before joining Baidu, Zhang Yaqin was the senior vice president of Microsoft and the chairman of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group. He is one of the founders of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). He was the president and chief scientist of Microsoft Research Asia, the global vice president of Microsoft and the chairman of Microsoft China. He founded Microsoft Asia Engineering Institute (ATC) in 2003. In 2004, he was promoted to global vice president of Microsoft. In 2006, he founded Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group. Before joining Microsoft, I worked for Sarnoff Company in the United States, responsible for the research and development of digital images and multimedia information systems. Before joining Sanov, he worked as a senior researcher at GTE Laboratory in the United States.
1997 was awarded the title of IEEE Fellow, becoming the youngest scientist to win this honor in the history of 100. He holds more than 60 American patents, more than 500 academic papers and 1 1 this monograph. Dr. zhang has won many professional awards and honors in the world, including 1997 "Research Engineer of the Year", 1998 "Outstanding Young Electronic Engineer Award", 2004 IEEE "Industry Pioneer Award", IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award, Honorary Fellow of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Academician of Eurasian Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of American Academy of Sciences in 2005. He has also served as government adviser to many provinces and cities, director or honorary professor of 20 universities, overseas representative of the 11th China People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of 100 Committee, outstanding Chinese organization in the United States, member of the International Advisory Group on Multimedia Corridor (IAP) of Malaysian government, and consultant of Australian information and communication technology (NICTA).
Zhang Yaqin studied at China University of Science and Technology, and obtained a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in electrical engineering, and then received a doctor's degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University.