Tang Xiao’ou (; born 1968) is a Chinese billionaire, computer scientist and the founder of

SenseTime SenseTime () is a Hong Kong-headquartered artificial intelligence company with offices in China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates. The compa ...

, an

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(AI) company. He is also a

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Information Engineering Information engineering is the engineering discipline that deals with the generation, distribution, analysis, and use of information, data, and knowledge in systems. The field first became identifiable in the early 21st century. The component ...

at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Biography

Tang studied at the

University of Science and Technology of China A university () is an educational institution, institution of higher education, higher (or Tertiary education, tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. Universities ty ...

and graduated with a B.S. degree in computer science in 1990. He travelled to America and acquired an M.S. degree from the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

in 1991, and a doctorate in computer vision from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1996. After graduation, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia from 2005 to 2008. Tang co-founded

with

Xu Li Xu Li (; born December 17, 1989, in Suzhou, Anhui) is a female Chinese freestyle wrestler who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and received the silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a ...

in 2014. Upon SenseTime's

IPO An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investment ...

in December 2021, Tang was estimated to have a net worth of approximately $3.4 billion. He currently serves as Associate Dean of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Honors and awards

Tang is an

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

fellow and a general chair of the ICCV in 2009. He is a former editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). Tang received Best Paper Award at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2009. He spearheaded the first facial recognition to beat human accuracy.

References

External links

Homepage at the Chinese University of Hong Kong SenseTime
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