Jian Wang
Assistant Managing Director
Microsoft Research Asia
Microsoft Corp.

Jian Wang is an assistant managing director at Microsoft Research Asia. He manages the multimodal user interface group, the data-centric computing group and adLabs Beijing. Wang’s research interests are ink-and-pen computing, multimodal user interface, large-scale data and information processing, seamless computing, and human cognition.

Wang is responsible for research and development of the digital ink technology that was shipped with the first release of Tablet PC, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. His team also worked on the handwriting math equation recognizer that shipped with Microsoft Math in July 2005.

Wang is also responsible for researching core technologies and developing systems for data-driven software (data infrastructure and analysis for service quality metrics and Watson), Microsoft’s advertising platform and seamless personal computing.

Before joining Microsoft in 1999, Wang was a professor in the department of psychology at Zhejiang University, where he held the distinction of being the youngest-ever chair of the psychology department faculty.

Previously Wang was director of the State Lab of Human Factors at Zhejiang University, where he led exploratory research into human-computer interaction. He also served on many expert panels for various government initiatives and funding agencies.

Wang received his doctorate in engineering psychology from the department of psychology, Hangzhou University.