Biography

Dr. Tao Qin is a Senior Principal Researcher and managing the Deep and Reinforcement Learning group at Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests include deep learning (with applications to machine translation, healthcare, speech synthesis and recognition, music understanding and composition), reinforcement learning (with applications to games and real-world problems), game theory and multi-agent systems (with applications to cloud computing, online and mobile advertising), and information retrieval and computational advertising. He got his PhD degree and Bachelor degree both from Tsinghua University. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and an Adjunct Professor (PhD advisor) in the University of Science and Technology of China.

His team helped Microsoft achieve human parity in Chinese-English machine translation in 2018, won the first place for 8 translation tasks in WMT 2019, and built the world-best Mahjong AI, named Suphx, which achieved 10 DAN on the Tenhou platform in mid 2019.