Xiaodong He
Senior Vice President of JD Group; former head of Microsoft Research's Deep Learning Technology Center
- Senior Vice President of JD Group (JD.COM), JD Group (JD.com)1
- Affiliate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington12
Xiaodong He is a Senior Vice President of JD Group (JD.com). Before joining JD.com, Xiaodong He worked at Microsoft Research as Principal Researcher and Head of the Deep Learning Technology Center, and Xiaodong He also serves as an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington. Research interests include deep learning, speech, natural language, computer vision, and information retrieval; at Microsoft Research, Xiaodong He co-authored the deep structured semantic models (DSSM) paper for web search, the bottom-up and top-down attention method for image captioning and visual question answering, and AttnGAN for text-to-image generation. Xiaodong He is an IEEE Fellow.12345
Work
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).3
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "Bottom-Up and Top-Down Attention for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering" (CVPR 2018), which proposes combining object-level bottom-up attention with top-down attention for image captioning and visual question answering.4
AttnGAN (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of the 2017 paper proposing AttnGAN, an attentional generative adversarial network for fine-grained text-to-image generation.5
Other documented roles
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- Principal Researcher and Head of the Deep Learning Technology Center (DLTC), Microsoft Research12
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