

Jianfeng Gao
Distinguished Scientist & Vice President
About
Distinguished Scientist & Vice President at Microsoft Research. IEEE Fellow. ACM Distinguished Member.
I am leading the Deep Learning Group. The group’s mission is to advance the state-of-the-art on deep learning and its application to natural language and image understanding, and for making progress on conversational models and methods. Our research interests are:
- Neural language modeling for natural language understanding and generation. Some ongoing projects are MT-DNN, UniLM, DeBERTa, question-answering, long text generation, etc.
- Neural symbolic computing. We are developing next-generation architectures to bridge gap between neural and symbolic representations with neural symbols. Some ongoing projects are relational encoding using Tensor-Product Representations, text-to-code, etc.
- Vision-language grounding and understanding. Some ongoing projects are vision-language pre-training, OSCAR, VIVO, vision language navigation, image editing and generation, image commenting and captioning, etc.
- Conversational AI. Some ongoing projects are conversation learner <…
Microsoft Research Podcast

Going deep on deep learning with Dr. Jianfeng Gao
Episode 104 | January 29, 2020 - Dr. Jianfeng Gao is a veteran computer scientist, an IEEE Fellow and the current head of the Deep Learning Group at Microsoft Research. He and his team are exploring novel approaches to advancing the state-of-the-art on deep learning in areas like NLP, computer vision, multi-modal intelligence and conversational AI. On the podcast, Dr. Gao gives us an overview of the deep learning landscape and talks about his latest work on Multi-task Deep Neural Networks, Unified Language Modeling and vision-language pre-training. He also unpacks the science behind task-oriented dialog systems as well as social chatbots like Microsoft Xiaoice, and gives us some great book recommendations along the way!