Harry Shum is a senior researcher and the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).
Harry joined Microsoft Research in 1996, after receiving a Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University . He has authored and co-authored over 100 papers in computer vision, computer graphics and robotics, and received more than 20 US patents. He is on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Circuit System Video Technology (CSVT), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) and Graphical Models.
His research interests include computer vision, computer graphics, human computer interaction, pattern recognition, statistical learning and robotics. He serves as the General Co-Chair of Tenth International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005 Beijing ).

Director of the Higher Education Office, Ministry of Education, P.R.C
He graduated from Xidian University, and got his PhD from Tohoku University on 1989.
Now he is a professor of Department of Computer Science in Tsinghua University. His research interests are computer network and operation system, especially network router. He is the inventer of the first router and the first route exchanger (got patent), and he is the first researcher to explore the Internet Quos Control and Applications area in China. He has over 90 pieces of paper, some published in IEEE Trans. He is also the chairman of Chinese Computer Users Consortium and director of Chinese Computer Guild, etc.

Jitendra Malik was born in Mathura, India in 1960. He received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1980 and the PhD degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985. In January 1986, he joined the university of California at Berkeley, where he is currently the Arthur J. Chick Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also on the faculty of the Cognitive Science and Vision Science groups.
His research interests are in computer vision and computational modeling of human vision. His work spans a range of topics in vision including image segmentation and grouping, texture, stereopsis, object recognition, image based modeling and rendering, content based image querying, and intelligent vehicle highway systems. He has authored or co-authored more than a hundred research papers on these topics.
He received the gold medal for the best graduating student in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1980, a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989, and the Rosenbaum fellowship for the Computer Vision Programme at the Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge in 1993. He received the Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, in 2000. He was awarded a Miller Research Professorship in 2001. He serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vision and the Journal of Vision, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.

Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang is Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. He is currently responsible for product development of Microsoft’s Mobile and Embedded Division, including WinCE operating system, Smartphone, PocketPC, and other Windows Mobile platform and devices.
Ya-Qin Zhang was the Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s basic research arm in Asia-Pacific region. From 1994 to 1999. he was the Director of Multimedia Technology Laboratory at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ (RCA Laboratories). He was with GTE (now Verizon) Corp. in Waltham, MA from 1989 to 1994. He has published over 200-refereed papers in leading international conferences and journals. He has been granted over 50 US patents in digital video, Internet, multimedia, wireless and satellite communications. Many of the technologies he and his team developed have become the basis for start-up ventures, commercial products, and international standards. He serves on the Board of Directors of five high-tech IT companies.
Ya-Qin is a Fellow of IEEE. He served as the Editor-In-Chief for the IEEE Trans. on Video Technology and editorial boards of seven other professional journals and over a dozen conference committees. He has been a key contributor to the ISO/MPEG and ITU standardization efforts in digital video and multimedia.
Ya-Qin received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1983 and 1985. He received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, Washington D.C. in 1989. He had executive business training from Harvard University.

Prof. Kiyoharu Aizawa received the B.E., the M.E. and the Dr.E. in electrical engineering all from the University of Tokyo in 1983, 1985, 1988 respectively.
He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Frontier Informatics of the University of Tokyo. He was a visiting assistant professor at University of Illinois from 1990 to 1992.
His current research interests are in image coding, image processing, image representation, multimedia applications for wearable and ubiquitous enviroment, caturing and processing of person's experiances, multimedia processing for WWW, and computational image sensors.
He received the 1987 Young Engineer Award and the 1990, 1998 Best Paper Award, the 1991 Achievement Award, 1999 Electronics Society Award from the IEICE Japan, and the 1998 Fujio Frontier Award the 2002 Best Paper Award from ITE Japan. He received IBM Japan Science Prize 2002. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Circuit and Systems for Video Technology and is on the editorial board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the Journal of Visual Communications and EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing.

As corporate vice president, Daniel T. Ling oversees the Redmond laboratory of Microsoft Research. Microsoft Research is dedicated to a broad program of basic and applied research in computer science and related areas. The laboratory’s mission is to advance the state of the art, develop new technologies which benefit Microsoft customers, and engage with the worldwide research community.
Ling served as director of the Redmond laboratory from 1995 until his promotion to vice president in April 2000. During that time, the Redmond laboratory grew over threefold to include research in new areas such as networking, data mining, computer-mediated collaboration, streaming media, devices and new development tools.
Ling joined Microsoft Research in March 1992 as a senior researcher in the area of user interfaces and computer graphics. He was one of the founders of the laboratory.
Previously, Ling was senior manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He initially worked on special-purpose VLSI chips for displays and was a co-inventor of video-RAM dynamic memory. He subsequently managed departments that conducted research on advanced microsystems based on 370 and RISC architectures, and the associated systems and VLSI design tools. One of these departments initiated work on a novel machine architecture, organization and design, code-named "America," that led to the IBM RS/6000 workstations. Ling subsequently managed the veridical user environments department, which conducted research in virtual worlds technology, user interfaces and data visualization.
Ling received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Baining Guo is the research manager of the Internet Graphics group at Microsoft Research Asia (formerly Microsoft Research China). Before joining Microsoft, Baining was a senior staff researcher in the Microcomputer Research Labs at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, California, where he worked on Intel's next-generation graphics architecture. He was also managing Intel's graphics research and development in Russia. Before moving to the Silicon Valley, Baining worked at University of Colorado, University of Toronto, and York University. He was also a visiting professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Telecommunications and Princeton University. Baining received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Cornell University and his B.S. from Beijing University. His research interests are mainly in modeling and rendering areas, including texture synthesis, reflectance and shading models, real-time rendering, natural phenomena. In addition he enjoys working on facial animation.

Lolan Song started her career at MS in Redmond more than 10 years ago as a systems engineer. Then she moved to Tokyo to cover Japan , Korea , China , Taiwan , and HK. Lolan was responsible for various mission-critical business application systems including sales, marketing, customer support, HR, and operations. She successfully managed a number of key projects and earned solid technical and managerial experience. Lolan built a regional IT team from scratch. She recruited people, made IT strategic plans to support MS business rapid growth, and managed multi-million dollar budget. Lolan was promoted to the Sr Regional IT Manager to cover 12 subs in Asia before she moved back to Redmond in 1999.
In Redmond , Lolan, as a Sr Program manager, managed systems design, development, testing, and operations support for a key system used behind Microsoft.com which is one of the busiest corp web site in the world. Later, Lolan as a Sr Business manager managed the global technical community initiative. She worked with the teams based in Asia, EMEA, and Latin America to roll out the MVP (most Valuable Professional) to the world and made the program one of the most successful one in the global technical communities.
After 19 years living abroad, Lolan Song returned to Beijing as the UR Director, MSRA in Aug 2004. She is responsible for the university relations in the entire Asia region. Lolan is very passionate about her work. She wants to devote her energy and experience to help the young generations reach their full potentials.

Feng Zhao is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft, where he manages the Networked Embedded Computing Group. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and has taught at Stanford University and Ohio State University. Dr. Zhao was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC and directed PARC’s sensor network research effort. He serves as the founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers and books, including a recent book published by Morgan Kaufmann - Wireless Sensor Networks: An information processing approach. He has received a number of awards, and his work has been featured in news media such as BBC World News, BusinessWeek, and Technology Review.