Shuming Shi

Shuming Shi is a prominent researcher in the field of natural language processing, currently serving as Principal Researcher and Head of the NLP Center at Tencent AI Lab since October 2016. Prior to this role, Shuming held the position of Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba Group for a brief period in 2016, focusing on chat bots and NLP. From August 2004 to July 2016, Shuming worked at Microsoft Research Asia as Lead Researcher, concentrating on text understanding, NLP, and knowledge mining, and previously served as Associate Researcher and Researcher with expertise in web search and semantic mining. Shuming earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science as well as a Bachelor's Degree in the same field from Tsinghua University, completing studies there from 1995 to 2004.