Ming Zhou
Researcher
Microsoft Research China

       Dr. Ming Zhou, an expert in the areas of machine translation and natural language processing, has joined Microsoft Research, China as a researcher. He comes to Microsoft, from his post as an associate professor of computer science at Tsinghua University. He designed the famous Chinese-Japanese machine translation software product J-Beijing in Japan. He also designed the CEMT-I machine translation system, the first experiment of Chinese-English machine translation in Mainland China. 

Dr. Zhou received three Science & Technology Promotion awards from the Ministry of China Aerospace for his research in machine translation, and one software patent of China for his Chinese spelling checking system. Since 1986, he has led several projects in machine translation, Chinese spelling checking and Chinese syntactic parsing funded by the China Natural Science Foundation and the Ministry of China Aerospace. He has conducted several cooperative projects in English-Chinese machine-aided translation, Japanese-Chinese machine translation, Chinese spelling checking, Chinese text information retrieval and Korean-Chinese machine translation with universities and companies in America, Japan, Hong Kong and Korea. He was in charge of the development of three commercial machine translation software products, including the DEAR translators workstation, the WinChar Chinese spelling checking system and the J-Beijing Chinese-Japanese machine translation system in China and Japan. He has served as a program committee member for several international conferences on natural language processing. 

Dr. Zhou received his B.S. degree in computer engineering from Chongqing University in 1985, and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1988 and 1991. He did post-doctoral work at Tsinghua University from 1991 to 1993, when he became an associate professor there. He visited the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a research associate in 1985 and the City University of Hong Kong as a research fellow in 1986. Between November of 1996 and March of 1999, he worked for Kodensha Ltd. Co. in Japan as the project leader of the Chinese-Japanese machine translation project that came out with the J-Beijing commercial software in 1998. Between April and August 1999, he was the leader of the NLP research group of the Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University. He joined Microsoft Research China in Sept. 1999.