Ming Zhou
Founder and CEO of Langboat; former Vice President of Microsoft Research Asia, where Zhou led NLP research
Ming Zhou is the founder and CEO of Langboat Technology, established in June 2021, which develops the Mengzi series of language models. Zhou joined Microsoft Research Asia in 1999 and led its natural language processing research for more than 20 years until the end of 2020, serving as a vice president of Microsoft Research Asia. Langboat's biography credits Zhou's teams with work on machine translation, the Windows Chinese-Japanese input method, Bing Dictionary, chatbot engines for XiaoIce, and pre-trained models including UniLM. Zhou is an ACL Fellow and has served as president of the ACL.1234
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, and Langboat's biography describes UniLM as led by Zhou.31
Mengzi (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2021 technical report releasing Mengzi, a family of lightweight discriminative, generative, domain-specific, and multimodal pre-trained models for Chinese.4
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Vice President; led natural language processing research (1999–2020), Microsoft Research Asia12
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