Jianfeng Gao
Microsoft Technical Fellow and CVP setting direction for AI models; co-founder of MSR's Deep Learning Group
- Technical Fellow & Corporate Vice President, Microsoft1
- Adjunct Professor, University of Washington1
Jianfeng Gao is a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Gao's Microsoft Research page describes Gao setting company-wide direction for the AI models behind Bing, Azure AI, Microsoft 365, and Copilot, and heading a Microsoft Research-backed investment in core capabilities such as multimodal reasoning, agentic coding, tool use, and long-context modeling. Gao was earlier a Distinguished Scientist and Vice President at Microsoft Research and a co-founder of its Deep Learning Group, and co-invented the deep structured semantic models (DSSM) used in web search. Gao is a co-author of the Phi-3 technical report and of LLaVA-Med, a vision-language assistant for biomedicine, and also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington.1245
Work
Phi-3Open weights
Listed among the authors of the Phi-3 Technical Report (2024), which introduces phi-3-mini, a 3.8 billion parameter model small enough to be deployed on a phone. The phi-3-mini-4k-instruct model card on Hugging Face lists the MIT license.23
Deep Structured Semantic Models (DSSM) (external site: microsoft.com)Published research
Co-author of "Learning Deep Structured Semantic Models for Web Search using Clickthrough Data" (CIKM 2013); Gao's Microsoft Research page describes Gao as a co-inventor of DSSM.41
LLaVA-Med (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2023 paper "LLaVA-Med: Training a Large Language-and-Vision Assistant for Biomedicine in One Day".5
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Distinguished Scientist and Vice President; co-founder and long-time leader of the Deep Learning Group, Microsoft Research1
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