Hsiao-Wuen Hon
Emeritus Researcher at Microsoft Research; former Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia
- Emeritus Researcher, Microsoft Research1
Hsiao-Wuen Hon is an Emeritus Researcher at Microsoft Research after a 28-year career at Microsoft, where Hon served as Corporate Vice President of the Asia-Pacific R&D Group and Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. Hon was a founder of the Microsoft Search Technology Center, which helped deliver the Bing search stack for Asia-Pacific, and earlier led Microsoft's Natural Interaction Service Division, which shipped Microsoft Speech Server. Hon's work spans speech recognition, natural language processing, and internet search, and Hon is a co-author of the 2019 UniLM paper on unified pre-training for language understanding and generation. Hon is an IEEE Fellow.12
Work
UniLM (Unified Language Model Pre-training) (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the NeurIPS 2019 paper presenting UniLM, a pre-trained Transformer that can be fine-tuned for both language understanding and generation; the paper links its code and pre-trained models.2
Microsoft Speech Server and the Bing search stack for Asia-Pacific
Led the Natural Interaction Service Division, which shipped Microsoft Speech Server and the Natural User Interface platform, and was a founder of the Microsoft Search Technology Center, which helped deliver the Bing search stack for Asia-Pacific.1
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