Baidu AI cattle matrix, Lu Qi can lead Baidu back to the peak?

Nowadays, the global competition of artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly hot. From the national government, the Internet giant, to the research institutions and AI ventures, AI is regarded as the fundamental strategy to enhance its core competitiveness. In the process of promoting the AI ​​industry from the rise to the rapid development, the leading role of AI top talents is particularly important, they are the key factors to promote the development of artificial intelligence.

As a domestic Internet giant, Baidu has become the Whampoa Military Academy of AI talents in recent years. The cattle people gather, which not only attracts the AI ​​talents of technology giants such as Microsoft and Apple, but also wins the favor of world-class scientists. At the same time, Baidu’s internal It also hatched many very talented people. Nowadays, Baidu has become the land of AI talents, and it is with the help of these big coffees that Baidu has been at the forefront of the AI ​​era.

Heroes have to ask for the source

Baidu COO Lu Qi
Baidu COO Lu Qi

In January 2017, Baidu made a far-reaching decision. Founder Li Yanhong invited former Microsoft executive vice president Lu Qi to join Baidu and take on COO to take over the management and operation of all Baidu businesses. Li Yanhong also quoted an idiom "Qin lost its deer (harmony Lu Qi), the world is a total of one to describe Lu Qi's rare.

In Baidu's opening of the "Lu Qi era" for more than a year, Baidu is advancing at full speed in the direction of AI. At the Baidu AI Developers Conference in 2017, Lu Qi published a declaration such as "AI is Baidu's opportunity, Baidu will be All In AI."

On the road of All In AI, Baidu has carried out a comprehensive spread from basic technology, landing application to research and development. In terms of basic technology, Baidu relies on the two major businesses of intelligent cloud and Baidu brain to conduct research on AI core technologies such as big data, deep learning, image recognition, knowledge map, and natural language understanding. In the application of landing, AI technology Drive mobile phone Baidu, iQiyi and other mobile services, add intelligent hardware services with DuerOS conversational AI operating system, deploy intelligent driving business with Apollo automatic driving platform, and extend AI capability into financial business; in research and development ecology, Baidu not only Self-built five laboratories and seven research and development centers, and also included partners such as chips and autopilot hardware manufacturers in their own AI ecological camp by means of investment and mergers and acquisitions.

Behind Baidu’s open-mindedness and striding into All In AI, a large number of outstanding AI talents are strongly supported. In Baidu’s AI talent base camp, there are Zhang Yaqin, Wang Haifeng, Jing Hao, Yang Tao and other companies from Microsoft. Veterans, including AVI technology executives such as Gu Weijun and Li Ying, and world-class AI scientists such as Kenneth Ward Church, Qi Jun, Xiong Hui and Wu Hua.

A five-way phoenix

1. Zhang Yaqin leads Baidu AI emerging business

Baidu President, Baidu Emerging Business Group General Manager Zhang Yaqin
Baidu President, Baidu Emerging Business Group General Manager Zhang Yaqin

Zhang Yaqin, president of Baidu and general manager of Baidu's emerging business group, joined Baidu in 2014 and is a member of Baidu Estaff. Before joining Baidu, he also worked at Microsoft for 16 years. He served as senior vice president of Microsoft, chairman of Microsoft China, chairman of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group, and participated in the establishment of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D system. At the same time, Dr. Zhang Yaqin has made great achievements in academics. He has not only held more than 60 US patents, but has also been awarded the title of honorary professor or visiting professor by more than ten universities. In addition, he is a foreign academician of the Australian National Academy of Engineering (ATSE) and an IEEE Fellow.

He also led the development of products in the fields of digital video, network, operating system, cloud computing, etc. It was also his first concept of Baidu cloud "ABC integration", which made this business become the process of Baidu AI industry landing. The key to Baidu AI's new business growth.

Baidu Vice President, Baidu Cloud General Manager Yin Shiming
Vice President of Baidu, Bai Yunyun, General Manager Yin Shiming

Speaking of Baidu cloud has become the key to the growth of Baidu's AI business, it is necessary to mention Yin Shiming, another cow of Baidu's emerging business group, which is the right arm of Dr. Zhang Yaqin personally selected. With more than 20 years of sales and management experience, he is also considered to be Baidu's most experienced business executive and resume executive.

In 2016, Yin Shiming, general manager of the channel business of Apple Greater China and head of the ecosystem department, was moved by Dr. Zhang Yaqin and came to Beijing from Shanghai to take charge of Baidu cloud business. He is currently the vice president of Baidu and the general manager of Baidu Cloud. Carry out the "Baidu Cloud ABC+IoT Strategy".

2, Wang Haifeng led the development of Baidu AI basic technology

Baidu Vice President, AIG Chief Executive Officer Wang Haifeng
Baidu Vice President, AIG Chief Executive Officer Wang Haifeng

In March 2017, Baidu announced that Baidu core technology including NLP, KG, IDL, Speech, Big Data, etc. will be established as Baidu AI technology platform system, and Baidu Vice President Wang Haifeng will be responsible for the AI ​​technology platform system. At the same time, he was promoted to a member of Estaff and reported directly to Baidu Group President and COO Lu Qi.

In August 2017, he was re-elected as Dean of Baidu Research Institute, responsible for Baidu Research Institute, Speech Technology Department, Natural Language Processing Department, Knowledge Mapping Department, Big Data Department, Visual Technology Department, Face Technology Department, Augmented Reality Technology. Department, AI Technology and Ecology Department, and several innovative business units.

Dr. Wang Haifeng is the only Chinese in the world's most influential international academic organization in the field of natural language processing. He has been the chairman of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is the only ACL from mainland China.

Li Ying, General Manager of Baidu Maps Business Unit
Li Ying, general manager of Baidu Maps Business Unit

In the AI ​​technology platform system, there is also a new business that was released in March this year - Baidu map. In 2018, Bai Ying, the executive of Baidu himself, was officially promoted to the general manager of Baidu Maps.

Li Ying, who graduated from Northeastern University in 2004, officially joined Baidu. She started from the engineering department, including the web search department, the Spider department, the Internet data research and development department, the recommendation and personalization department, the compound search department, the human resources department, and the knowledge map. Department, AI Technology and Ecology Department, AI Test Department and other departments undertake engineers and management work.

3. Jing Hao led the construction of the DuerOS platform

On March 6, 2018, Baidu announced the official establishment of the Smart Life Business Group (SLG), which consists of the Secret Business Unit, the Hardware Ecology Channel Department and the Raven Studio Studio. The President and Chief Operating Officer of Baidu Group Lu Qi As a general manager, Baidu’s emphasis on AI hardware can be seen. Among them, the Department of Secrets is responsible for the construction and operation of the DuerOS platform and ecology.

Baidu Department of Secret Business Division
Baidu’s head of the secret business department

The Secret Business Division is the core of Baidu's intelligent hardware business. DuerOS is called Windows by AI Times in the AI ​​era. At the same time, he is also the chairman of the Baidu Artificial Intelligence Product Committee, responsible for the DuerOS products of the secret and conversational artificial intelligence operating system. , research and development, operations, business and other work. Before the secret business was upgraded, Jing Hao also served as Chairman of the Product Committee of Baidu Search Company and Chief Product Architect of Big Search.

In addition to his secret, Jing Hao is also closely related to another dialogue AI, "Microsoft Xiao Bing". Before joining Baidu, Jing Hao served as the chief research and development director of Microsoft, responsible for Microsoft Bing search for the research and development of the Asian market, and he is also Microsoft. The creator of Xiao Bing.

4, Li Zhenyu led the team Baidu smart driving business

Li Zhenyu, general manager of Baidu Smart Driving Business Group
Li Zhenyu, general manager of Baidu Smart Driving Business Group

Intelligent driving has become an important scene for AI landing. In March 2017, Baidu established the Intelligent Driving Business Group (IDG). At that time, Lu Qi was also the general manager. It was at this time that Li Zhenyu was rotated to the intelligent driving business group. Responsible for the research and development of Baidu IDG products and technologies. Five months later, Li Zhenyu officially took over the great stick of IDG general manager from Lu Qi and became the first-line executor of Baidu Apollo strategy.

Li Zhenyu worked in Huawei for 6 years in network technology research and development, and won the highest honor in Huawei. In 2007, he joined Baidu as the head of Baidu's various basic technology departments and business departments. In 2015, he began to participate in the establishment of Baidu Autopilot Division and led the implementation of Baidu's autopilot business plan.

Bai Wei, General Manager of Smart Car Business Unit
Gu Weiwei, General Manager of Baidu Smart Car Division

In Baidu's smart car business unit, there is also a senior executive trained by Baidu himself. He is the general manager of Baidu's smart car business unit Gu Weijun. In 2003, he joined Baidu as an intern. He served as deputy general manager of Baidu's map business unit and general manager of Baidu's car network. In 2016, he was appointed as general manager of Baidu's new strategic-level business Baidu L3 business unit. In 2017, the business unit was upgraded to Baidu Intelligent. In the Automotive Division, Gu Weizhen is still the general manager of the business.

5, Wu Haifeng led the Baidu search business

Vice President of Baidu and Chief of the Large Search Division Wu Haifeng
Wu Haifeng, Vice President of Baidu and Head of the Large Search Division

Wu Haifeng, vice president of Baidu and the head of the large search division, is also a senior executive of Baidu himself. In 2006, he joined Baidu after finishing his master's degree in Zhejiang University. He has undertaken natural language processing, image search, and web search. Department and the management of the product marketing department. After setting off the Baidu search business banner, Wu Haifeng led the team to complete the transformation of universal search and vertical search integration and interactive mobility, greatly enhance the search process experience, and lead the team to continuously promote the knowledge and intelligent evolution of search.

Baidu search company CTO Zheng Zipin
Baidu search company CTO Zheng Zipin

As the starting business of Baidu, Baidu search also has many technical cattle, CTO Zheng Zibin is one of them. Zheng Zibin graduated from Stanford University with a master's degree in computer science. He has worked in well-known companies such as Google, Alibaba, and Oracle. He has more than 20 years of experience in Silicon Valley and domestic R&D management. For more than ten years, he has been committed to Internet marketing technology innovation and is a senior practitioner in the field of artificial intelligence and big data. In May 2010, he officially joined Baidu, and is currently fully responsible for the Baidu search company's large business division.

Vice President of Baidu Company
Baidu company vice president shiver

In the Baidu search business, there is also a cattle person - Shen Xiao, who joined Baidu in 2012, has served as deputy technical director and technical director of Baidu Alliance R & D department, and senior director of Baidu web search department. In May 2017, he was promoted to the vice president of Baidu Company. He continued to be responsible for the Handbag and Feed business units, including mobile phone Baidu and Baidu Feed Stream, Baijia, Baidu News, Mobile Browser, and Hao123. In 2016, he was also sent to Baidu Finance, which was just formed, and served as executive director and FSG overall R&D leader. After Baidu Financial R&D was completed, it returned to Baidu search. In addition, he was selected for the “Beijing Overseas High-level Talents” and “Beijing Specialized Experts” in 2014.

AI big cattle tied up Baidu Research Institute

In Baidu's AI talent map, there is also a place where world-class cattle people get together, that is Baidu Research Institute. As the research focus of Baidu's cutting-edge technology, Baidu Research Institute has become an important technology engine to promote the development of Baidu AI.

In January of this year, Baidu Research Institute held a full-time meeting in Silicon Valley, and upgraded Baidu Research Institute. After the upgrade, Baidu Research Institute was expanded from three original laboratories to five laboratories, namely Deep Learning Lab (IDL). ), Big Data Lab (BDL), Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SVAIL), Business Intelligence Lab (BIL), Robotics and Autopilot Lab (RAL).

Among them, Business Intelligence Lab (BIL) and Robotics and Autonomous Driving Lab (RAL) are three new projects. At the same time, the conference also re-established the team of scientists of Baidu Research Institute, in addition to the dean Wang Haifeng, and Xu Wei, Li Ping, Yang Ruigang, three senior scientists who have worked at Baidu Research Institute, three world-class artificial intelligence scientists Kenneth Ward Church, Qi Jun and Xiong Hui joined Baidu Research Institute.

In the middle is Kenneth Ward Church, the third is Wang Haifeng, the third is Xiong Hui, and the second is Wei Jun.
In the middle is Kenneth Ward Church, the third is Wang Haifeng, the third is Xiong Hui, and the second is Wei Jun.

Kenneth Ward Church is a master of natural language processing and one of the founders of the empirical approach. The MIT graduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also worked at Bell Labs, Microsoft Research, Johns Hopkins University, and IBM Watson. In addition, he is an ACL fellow like Dr. Wang Haifeng, and he also served as ACL chairman in 2012. Not only that, he also founded EMNLP, one of the most important academic conferences in the field of natural language processing.

In addition to the addition of the Bulls Church in the NLP field, Baidu Research also attracted a ten-year tenured professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas, and served as the head of Baidu Big Data Lab (BDL); the life of Rutgers-New Jersey State University Professor, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Expert, ACM Distinguished Scientist Award winner Xiong Hui, is the director of Baidu Research Institute of Business Intelligence; Quantum Computing Niu Ren, a lifelong professor of the University of Technology, Duan Runzhen, is the director of Baidu Quantum Computing Institute.

Chairman of Baidu Technical Committee Wu Hua
Wu Hua, Chairman of Baidu Technical Committee

In addition to several heavyweight research institutes, Baidu AI talents also have a female big cow. Wu Hua, who is currently chairman of the Baidu Technical Committee, joined Baidu in 2010. Her research field is very extensive, including machine translation, natural language processing, machine learning, intelligent interaction, etc. The Baidu translation project led by her has also won the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress. In addition, she has served as Chairman of the Program Committee of ACL 2014 in the International Conference on Natural Language Processing. She has been invited to serve as the chair of international conferences such as ACL, IJCAI, and AAAI. In 2017, she was also selected as Forbes “AI Outstanding Women”.

Conclusion: AI talent has become the core competitiveness of Baidu

Judging from the above-mentioned list of Baidu's five business segments, Baidu's AI talents mainly come from two aspects. One is the external introduction, which is mainly divided into enterprise and academic groups. The executives of the Microsoft department occupy the enterprise. The largest proportion, while the academic faction attracts outstanding AI talents from internationally renowned institutions such as Stanford and MIT; on the other hand, internal training, such as Wu Haifeng, Gu Weizhen, Li Ying, etc., Baidu has been trained for many years. Excellent executives and fully responsible for an important business of Baidu.

As early as Lu Qi's appointment in 2017, Baidu founder Li Yanhong once said that artificial intelligence will be Baidu's very core competitiveness. He said, "Without artificial intelligence, all Baidu products must be eliminated today. Artificial intelligence pairs Baidu's future high-speed, long-term development has a very important role."

Therefore, in addition to focusing on the present, Baidu will introduce excellent AI talents in the business, and will also look into the long-term perspective. For this reason, Baidu Research Institute has introduced world-class scientists in NLP, quantum computing and big data.

This article was first published on the WeChat public account: Chi things. The content of the article belongs to the author's personal opinion and does not represent the position of Hexun.com. Investors should act accordingly, at their own risk.

(Editor: Liu Wei HF113)

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