On May 30, another AI strongman who once dominated the industry returned to academia. Zhou Bowen, the former head of JD AI business, was hired as a long-term professor by the Department of electronic engineering of Tsinghua University. Just now, the official announcement of Tsinghua University: Dr. zhoubowen was appointed as the Dean Professor of the Department of electronic engineering and the Hui Yan Chair Professor of Tsinghua University.
At present, Professor Zhou Bowen's page has been launched on the personal homepage of Chinese and English teachers on the official website of the Department of electronic engineering of Tsinghua University. The mailing address is Roma building, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing.
Zhou Bowen was also included in the list of professors on the official website of the Institute of information cognition and intelligent systems, Department of electronic engineering, Tsinghua University.
However, Professor Zhou's columns of scientific research, teaching research, enrollment information, educational experience, work experience, research direction, social part-time jobs, etc. are blank in the content of the teachers' home page. It may be that the specific courses, students or projects have not been determined yet.
In the official wechat official account article of the Department of electronic engineering of Tsinghua University, it is recruiting for Professor Zhou's team:
"Professor Zhou Bowen's research group at Tsinghua University has been recruiting teachers, researchers (including associate researchers and assistant researchers), postdoctors and engineers from around the world, and recruiting doctoral and master's students. He has actively invited students interested in integrating AI research and industrial application to participate in and teach students in accordance with their aptitude."
The team goal given by Professor Zhou is to 'put our research results on the academic shelves and on the industrial shelves', which is very ambitious.
Co authored hot papers with bengio
Professor Zhou Bowen enrolled in the junior class of the University of science and technology of China in 1991 and obtained a bachelor's degree in electronic information engineering in 1996. In 1999, he obtained a master's degree in information and signal processing from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2003, he obtained a doctor's degree in electronic and computer engineering from the University of Colorado.
In 2020, Professor zhoubowen was elected IEEE fellow, and in the same year, he won wuwenjun Award for outstanding contribution to artificial intelligence.
On December 8, 2021, the Chinese Association for artificial intelligence (CAAI) announced the list of 14 newly elected members in 2021, including two academicians of the Chinese Academy of engineering, including Professor zhoubowen.
Professor Zhou Bowen has published hundreds of papers in world-class journals and top academic conferences, and has nearly 20 patents. Google academic shows that as of the time of publication, his number of citations was 12929. The paper co authored with bengio in 2017 has been cited 1862 times.
Professor Zhou Bowen was the chairman of ACL and naacl machinetranslation, machine question answering, machine learning, information extraction and other fields.
Currently, he still serves as the reviewer of major AI academic conferences including ICLR, nips, ACL, emnlp, icassp and AAAI.
At the same time, Professor zhoubowen is also a member of the national new generation artificial intelligence governance expert committee, the national new generation artificial intelligence development research center, the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Strategy Expert Advisory Committee, the Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu municipal government science and technology consultant, and has served as a part-time professor and doctoral tutor in many universities.
From the chief of IBM Watson to the founder of JD AI
Professor Zhou Bowen has been engaged in the research on basic theories and core cutting-edge technologies of artificial intelligence for more than 20 years. In terms of research and industrial integration, he is committed to the research on real demand driven, problem oriented AI cutting-edge technologies and the realization of industrial value.
His research fields include speech and natural language processing, multimodal content understanding and generation, knowledge representation and reasoning, man-machine dialogue, trusted AI, and its application in industrialization and digital intelligence.
In 2003, Professor zhoubowen joined IBM T.J. in New York. As a researcher of Watson Research Institute, he has successively held many technical and management positions such as chief researcher, research manager, assistant to vice president and director of several large-scale projects, and has been responsible for many fields such as basic research, strategic planning, operation and cloud service product development.
He also served as the president of IBM research artificial intelligence research institute, chief scientist of IBM Watson group and IBM outstanding engineer, and was responsible for the strategy and implementation of the whole IBM in artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning basic technologies.
In the same year, he developed the world's first embedded two-way speech translation system with large vocabulary, promoted its subsequent commercialization and obtained successful market application.
As the chief scientist of IBM Watson group, he led the team to participate in and technically lead the development, engineering and commercialization of the artificial intelligence platform of IBM Watson group.
As a major technical performer, he has won several IBM outstanding technical achievement awards and outstanding technical invention awards. As a technical leader and senior executive, he has won IBM outstanding technical leadership achievement award. He also won the IBM highest award 'best of IBM'.
Professor Zhou Bowen joined JD group in 2017 and was responsible for the relevant businesses of JD AI research and Platform Department. He used to be the vice president of JD group, the chairman of the technical committee of JD group, the president of JD Zhilian cloud, and the president of JD Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.
It can be said that Professor zhoubowen is the pioneer of JD AI business.
When JD started to expand from cloud computing business to AI business, it first hired Zhou Bowen, the then chief scientist of IBM Watson, to serve as vice president of JD group and head of JD AI platform and research department in september2017.
Then Zhou Bowen became an important role in promoting the development of JD artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
From the situation at that time, Zhou Bowen's joining was closely related to the X business unit and Y business unit established by JD in 2016.
The former mainly studies robot science, and the application scenarios are unmanned warehouse, delivery robot, light / heavy UAV, etc; The latter mainly studies artificial intelligence technology to help improve JD's supply chain capability.
Since 2017, Zhou Bowen has helped JD introduce more than ten well-known scholars in the AI field, including Dr. hexiaodong (who once worked at Microsoft Redmond Research Institute in the United States), Dr. Mei Tao (who once worked at Microsoft Asia Research Institute) and so on, and has built an AI team of more than 400 people from scratch.
Under the leadership of Professor Zhou Bowen, JD AI has published a total of 110+ papers in artificial intelligence top conferences and journals, and won the champion of international academic competitions for 12 times.
Including winning the championship in CVPR 2018 single person and multi person human posture estimation; In 2019, wikihop machine reading data set competed with research institutions such as Facebook, salesforce and CMU, and won the first place in the ranking, surpassing the accuracy of human performance; Won the first place in three academic competitions in CVPR 2019, including video action recognition, commodity picture recognition, and fine-grained butterfly picture recognition, and won the second place in the multi person human body analysis and dish image recognition competitions.
On December 6, 2019, JD announced that JD cloud, JD artificial intelligence and JD IOT were merged into 'JD Zhilian cloud', and JD cloud and AI business division were established.
Zhou Bowen served as the head of the business unit. It is said that his task at that time was to better top-level design and commercial implementation of the technologies and products of JD cloud, JD artificial intelligence and JD IOT.
At that time, the slogan of JD Zhilian cloud was "the digital economy service enterprise that knows the industry best".
A few days later, on December 10, 2019, JD group announced the establishment of the group's Technical Committee as the top management decision-making body of JD technology line. Zhou Bowen served as chairman of the technical committee.
For this role, Zhou Bowen's three tasks at that time were 'building JD's technology brand', 'building JD's technology culture' and 'enhancing the overall technical influence of JD group in the whole industry'.
After the establishment of the technical committee system, JD gradually formed a structure including data center, technology center and business center, comprehensively driving business innovation.
The turning point will take place at the end of 2020.
On December 30, 2020, JD group announced that it planned to integrate its cloud and AI businesses into JD digital, which was renamed by JD finance in 2018, and would exchange this for part of the equity of JD digital.
In January, 2021, after JD group announced the integration of cloud and AI business with JD digital, it officially established JD technology sub group. Liyayun, the former CEO of JD digital, will serve as the CEO of JD technology sub group.
This means that Zhou Bowen, who had always reported directly to liuqiangdong, has now turned to liyayun.
Since then, JD technology has formed 15 business groups through a series of structural adjustments and personnel changes, of which Zhou Bowen is only responsible for the business group of the basic technology department. The JD Zhilian cloud business he was once responsible for was transferred to gaoliqiang, the former vice president of Oracle China sales.
On November 16, 2021, Zhou Bowen was disclosed to have left JD.
Although it is said that he will start a business at the end of 2021, now it seems that Mr. Zhou may still prefer to be professor Zhou. The road to entrepreneurship is stormy, and AI Daniel may be more suitable for the quiet academic world.