• Haifeng Wang (王海峰)

    CTO, Baidu

    Managing Director, Baidu Research

    Head, National Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning Technology and Applications

    Email: wanghaifeng [at] baidu [dot] com
    Address: Baidu Technology Park, Beijing, China, 100193


Biography

Haifeng WANG is Chief Technology Officer of Baidu, Managing Director of Baidu Research and Head of the National Engineering Laboratory for Deep Learning Technology and Applications. He is in charge of Baidu’s Artificial Intelligence Group (AIG), overseeing the research and development efforts in artificial intelligence technologies.

Dr. Wang served as the president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in 2013 and became the founding chair of Asia-Pacific Chapter of the ACL in 2018. He served as area chair, tutorial chair, program chair, etc. at top AI conferences, including IJCAI, KDD, ACL and so on. He is also an adjunct professor at several top universities.

Dr. Wang is an ACL Fellow, IEEE Fellow, CAAI Fellow and Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Science. He was awarded the National Technological Invention Award, National Science and Technology Progress Award, China Patent Golden Award, Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award, and the Outstanding Contribution Award of Wu Wen Jun AI Science and Technology Award.

Dr. Wang has published more than 100 academic papers at top journals and AI conferences including IJCAI (5 papers), AAAI (12 papers), Nature Machine Intelligence, ACL, KDD, CVPR etc., and holds over 100 Chinese and international patents. He has given more than 100 invited talks at academic conferences and industrial events.

Research interests

Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Knowledge Graph, Search, Deep Learning

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