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Senior Vice President, Microsoft Research
Before joining Microsoft in September 1991, Rashid was professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). After becoming a CMU faculty member in September 1979, he directed the design and implementation of several influential network operating systems, and published dozens of papers about computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communications security. During his tenure at CMU, Rashid developed the Mach multiprocessor operating system, which has been influential in the design of many modern operating systems and remains at the core of a number of commercial systems. Rashid was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for his work in operating systems and for innovation in industrial research. He also is credited with co-development of one of the earliest networked computer games, "Alto Trek," during the mid-1970s. An updated version of this game has been developed by Microsoft and has been released under the name "Allegiance." Rashid is a member of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer Directorate Advisory Committee. He is a past member of the DARPA UNIX Steering Committee and the CSNet Executive Committee and a former chairman of the ACM Software System Awards Committee. Rashid's research interests have focused on artificial intelligence, operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. He has participated in the design and implementation of the University of Rochester RIG operating system (1975-1979), the Rochester Virtual Terminal Management System (1976-1979), the CMU Distributed Sensor Network Testbed (1980-1983) and CMU's SPICE distributed personal computing environment, which included the Accent network operating system (1981-1985). He has published papers on computer vision, operating systems, programming languages for distributed processing, network protocols and communication security. Rashid received master of science (1977) and doctoral (1980) degrees in computer science from the University of Rochester . He graduated with honors in mathematics and comparative literature from Stanford University in 1974. More information, please come to Rashid's website: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/rick/default.mspx
President, Zhejiang University
Prof. Pan Yunhe was born in 1946 in Zhejiang Province, P. R. China. He graduated in 1970 from Department of Architecture of Tongji University, Shanghai, China and gained the MSc. Degree from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 1981. He is a professor of computer science at Zhejiang University. He was once Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Vice President of Zhejiang University. Since 1995 he has been President of Zhejiang University. In 1997, he became a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Prof. PAN is currently a member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in China, Vice Chairman of the Association of Science and Technology in Zhejiang Province, Director-general of the National Association of Image and Graphics Studies in China, Vice Director-general of the National Association of Artificial Intelligence Studies in China，Vice Director-general of the National Association of Mechanical Engineering in China, and one of the directors of the National Association of Computer Science in China. Prof. Pan Yunhe is a pioneer in the fields of ICAD and Computer Fine Arts in China. He has introduced AI into computer graphics and CAD technology, proposed a series of models of synthetic reasoning and image thinking with a publication of over 200 papers, and successfully developed several new practical ICAD/CAM systems, including the ICAD System for Art Pattern Creation, the Automatic Advertising System, the ICAD Systems for Building Layouts, the Pipelines and Network Planning System, etc. His development of the ICAD System for Art Pattern Creation in textile industry and his innovations in the fields of virtual reality and CAD have resulted remarkable profits. Prof. PAN has won numerous awards, of which the most important include “The 2nd-class National Award for Scientific and Technological Advancement” from China’s Ministry of Science and Technology and “The 1st-class National Award for Scientific and Technological Advancement” from China’s Ministry of Education. More information, please visit Prof. Yunhe's website: http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/people/yhpan.html
Managing Director & Chief Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia
More information, please come to Harry's website: http://research.microsoft.com/users/hshum/
President's Professor of Computer Science and Head of Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Jeannette M. Wing is the President's Professor of Computer Science and the Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1979 and her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1983, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Wing's general research interests are in the areas of specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, and programming languages. Her current focus is on design and measurement techniques for improving the security of software systems. Professor Wing has published extensively in the premier journals and conferences in her research specialties and has given many distinguished lectures and keynote talks internationally. She was or is on the editorial board of eight journals. Professor Wing is a member of numerous national and corporate boards, including the National Academies of Sciences’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board, and the Intel Research Pittsburgh's Advisory Board. At Carnegie Mellon, she was the Associate Department Head for the Ph.D. Program in Computer Science for nine years and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Computer Science for five years. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, Microsoft Research, MIT, University of Southern California, and Xerox Palo Alto Research Laboratories. She is a member of AAAS, ACM, IEEE, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu. Professor Wing is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. More information, please come to Wing's website: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Eugene Fiume is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where he also co-directs the Dynamic Graphics Project. Following his B.Math. degree from the University of Waterloo and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow and Maitre Assistant at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He was awarded an NSERC University Research Fellowship in 1987 and returned to the University of Toronto to a faculty position. He was Associate Director of the Computer Systems Research Institute, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Grenoble, France. He is or was a member of various boards, including the Scientific Advisory Board of GMD, Germany, and the Max-Planck Center for Visual Computing and Communication; the Board of Directors of TrueSpectra, Inc. in Toronto; the Board of Directors of CITO; the Advisory Boards of CastleHill Ventures, PlateSpin, BitFlash, TrueSpectra, OctigaBay Systems and NGRAIN Corporation; and the Executive Advisory Board of the IBM Lab in Toronto. Eugene has participated in many task forces and reviews of research institutes around the world. He has had a long association with the computer graphics and electronic media industries in Canada and the U.S., notably with Alias|wavefront, where he was Director of Research and Usability Engineering while on leave from the university. He now works with several companies in an advisory capacity on both technological and business issues. He also works with venture capital companies on due diligence and strategy. Eugene's research interests include most aspects of realistic computer graphics, including computer animation, modeling natural phenomena, and illumination, as well as strong interests in internet based imaging, image repositories, software systems and parallel algorithms. He has written two books and (co-)authored over 90 papers on these topics. Eleven doctoral students and twenty master's students have graduated under his supervision. He has won two teaching awards, as well as Innovation Awards from ITRC for research in computer graphics and Burroughs-Wellcome for biomedical research. He was also the Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH 2001, and is Chair of the SIGGRAPH Awards Committee. His industrial interests include technology transfer in the Information Technology area, internet-based applications, wireless and multimedia systems, web-based services, large-scale computation, and the interaction of information technology and business. More information, please come to Eugene 's website: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/elf/
Director, University Relations, Microsoft Research Asia
Lolan Song started her career at Microsoft in Redmond Washington more than 10 years ago as an engineer. Then she moved to the Microsoft regional office in Tokyo to cover Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and HK. She successfully managed a number of key projects and earned solid technical and managerial experience. Lolan was promoted to the Sr Regional IT Manager to cover 12 subs in Asia in 1999. In the headquarters, Lolan managed technical projects as well as business development projects. As a senior business manager, she worked with the teams based in Asia, Europe, and Latin America to make the MVP (most Valuable Professional) a truly global program. Lolan Song moved to Beijing to become Director, University Relations at Microsoft Research Asia in Aug 2004. She manages a regional team and is responsible for the university relations in the Asia-pacific region.
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research Redmond
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 bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. Ling holds seven patents and is the author of a variety of publications. He was awarded an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award in 1986 for his co-invention of video-RAM. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Physical Society and the Association for Computing Machinery. In addition, he serves on advisory committees for Stanford University, the University of Washington and the University of California at Berkeley.
Director General, Department of Science and Technology, Minister of Education of P.R. China
Xie Huanzhong, male, was born in February 1957 in Shanxi province, PR China. During the period from March 1974 to February 1978, he worked in a rural production team and at a factory in Shaanxi province consecutively. In January 1982, he graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Xi’an Jiaotong University. Since February that year, he has been working in MOE Science and Technology Department. During his public service from September 1984 to July 1986, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Management Science of Fudan University. From October to November 1990, he was trained on technology transfer in France as a member of the State Science and Technology Commission’s technology transfer training team. From March to September 1993, he worked as a volunteer teacher in Zouping county, Shandong province. He works in succession as a staff member, Deputy Director and Director of MOE Science and Technology Department. In June 1996, he was appointed Deputy Director of the department. In April 2001, he held a concurrent post as Director of MOE Science and Technology Development Center. In August 2001, he was appointed Director of the department and held a concurrent post as Director of the MOE Education Informatization Leading Team Office. He has long been involved in and is very familiar with the management of science and technology development in institutions of higher learning. He has published over 30 articles in related magazines.
Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia
Dr. Wei-Ying Ma received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1994 and 1997, respectively. From 1994 to 1997 he was engaged in the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) project in UCSB while completing his Ph.D. He developed a web-based image retrieval system called Netra which has been frequently cited by other researchers and is regarded as one of the most representative image retrieval systems. This system is the first large-scale image retrieval system which uses image segmentation to enable region-based search. From 1997 to 2001, he was with HP Labs where he worked in the field of multimedia adaptation and distributed media services infrastructure. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2001. Since then, he has been leading a research group to conduct research in the areas of information retrieval, web search, data mining, mobile browsing, and multimedia management. He currently serves as an Editor for the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal and Associate Editor for the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. He has served on the organizing and program committees of many international conferences including ACM Multimedia, ACM SIGIR, ACM CIKM, WWW, ICME, CVPR, SPIE Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems, SPIE Multimedia Communication and Networking, etc. He is also the general co-chair of International Multimedia Modeling (MMM) Conference 2005 and International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2005. He has published 4 book chapters and over 100 international journal and conference papers.
Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo
Dr. Masatoshi ISHIKAWA is an Executive Vice President of the
University of Tokyo. He serves as the director of university-cooperate
relations and the CIO (Chief Information Officer) of University of
Tokyo.
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Currently charged with oversight of Microsoft Research's worldwide operations, Richard (Rick) F. Rashid previously served as the director of Microsoft Research, focusing on operating systems, networking and multiprocessors. In that role he was responsible for managing work on key technologies leading to the development of Microsoft Corp.'s interactive TV system and authored a number of patents in areas such as data compression, networking and operating systems. In addition to running Microsoft Research, Rashid also was instrumental in creating the team that eventually became Microsoft's Digital Media Division and directing Microsoft's first e-commerce group. Rashid was promoted to vice president of Microsoft Research in 1994, and then to senior vice president in 2000. 
Harry
Shum received his Ph.D. in robotics from the School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He worked as a researcher for three
years in the vision technology group at Microsoft Research Redmond. In
1999, he moved to Microsoft Research Asia where he is currently the
Managing Director. His research interests include computer vision,
computer graphics, human computer interaction, pattern recognition,
statistical learning and robotics. He is on the editorial boards for
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI),
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), and Graphical Models.
He is the General Co-Chair of the Tenth International Conference on
Computer Vision (ICCV 2005 Beijing).
