Gang Hua

Gang Hua is the Vice President of the Multimodal Experiences Research Lab at Dolby Laboratories. His research focuses on computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, robotics, towards general Artificial Intelligence, with primary applications in cloud and edge intelligence, and currently with a focus on new media and entertainment experiences. Before that, he was the CTO of Convenience Bee, and  the Managing Director and Chief Scientist of its research branch in US, Wormpex AI Research (2018-2024).. He also served in various roles at Microsoft (2015-18) as the Science/Technical Adviser to the CVP of the Computer Vision Group, Director of Computer Vision Science Team in Redmond and Taipei ATL, and Senior Principal Researcher/Research Manager at Microsoft Research . He was an Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology (2011-15). During 2014-15, he took an on leave and worked on the Amazon-Go project. He was a Visiting Researcher (2011-14) and a Research Staff Member (2010-11) at IBM Research T. J. Watson Center, a Senior Researcher (2009-10) at Nokia Research Center Hollywood, and a Senior Scientist (2006-09) at Microsoft Live labs Research. He received his Ph.D. degree in ECE from Northwestern University in 2006. He is an IEEE Fellow, an IAPR Fellow, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He is the recipient of the 2015 IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award. He has published more than 260 peer reviewed papers in top conferences and journals. To date, he holds 37 US/International patents and has 15 more patents pending. (See https://www.linkedin.com/in/gang-hua-87aa22a/ for my professional profile.