# [[👤Jianfeng Gao]] - [[Artificial Intelligence]] - [[👤Jianfeng Gao]] *** Jianfeng Gao is a Distinguished Scientist and Vice President at Microsoft, known for his significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and natural language processing[2]. Here are some key points about his career and accomplishments: ## Research Focus Gao leads the Deep Learning (DL) group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. His research primarily focuses on: - Natural language processing - Image understanding - Building conversational agents - Large-scale foundation models ## Career Highlights - Currently heads the Deep Learning group at Microsoft Research, Redmond[2] - Led research on building large-scale foundation models powering major Microsoft AI products[2] - From 2022, he has been leading research on self-improving AI, focusing on augmenting and adapting LLMs like ChatGPT/GPT4 for commercial AI systems[2] - Served as General Manager in Business AI and Dynamics 365 from 2017 to 2018[2] - Partner Research Manager at Microsoft AI & Research and Deep Learning Technology Center from 2014 to 2017[2] ## Notable Contributions - Co-inventor of deep structured semantic models (DSSMs), widely used in commercial systems like web search and online ads prediction[2] - Co-inventor of the Orthant-Wise Limited-memory Quasi-Newton (OWL-QN) method, a popular variant of L-BFGS for optimizing sparse linear models[2] - Developed the first Chinese speech recognition system released with Microsoft Office[2] - Led the development of Chinese/Japanese Input Method Editors (IME) that became leading products in the market[2] ## Publications and Impact Gao has authored numerous highly-cited papers in the field of AI and machine learning. Some of his most influential works include: - "Embedding entities and relations for learning and inference in knowledge bases" (3700 citations)[1] - "A diversity-promoting objective function for neural conversation models" (2533 citations)[1] - "DeBERTa: Decoding-enhanced BERT with disentangled attention" (2338 citations)[1] Jianfeng Gao's work has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in deep learning and its applications, particularly in natural language processing and AI systems development. Citations: [1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=CQ1cqKkAAAAJ [2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/jianfeng-gao-2558165 [3] https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Fzo3z9wAAAAJ [4] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/jfgao/publications/ [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Graziano [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlDBYAJ1oUw [7] https://psychology.princeton.edu/people/michael-graziano