Portrait of Jian-Guang Lou

Jian-Guang Lou

Sr. Principal Research Manager

About

I am a Sr. principal research manager at Microsoft Research Asia now. I joined MSRA in Sep. 2003. Before that, I obtained my Ph.D degree from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academic of Sciences in 2003 , and my Master degree from Zhejiang University in 2000 respectively.

During the past 16 years, I worked on a series of cross-discipline research areas including multimedia systems, data mining for software systems, machine learning and data mining for business intelligence. Previous projects include multi-view video (multi-view video capturing, compressing and streaming over IP network), Peer-to-peer streaming, data analysis for online services,  big-data analysis techniques for business intelligence. Recently, I mainly worked on conversational bot technologies especially designed for data analysis domain, which can help common users to analyze tabular data sets through natural language conversation.

News:

  1. Our NL technology on Excel was announced at Ignite 2019. Here is a review article from Mr. Excel (a MVP user of Excel).
  2. Our NL technology on Excel has been released.
  3. Technical Briefing: Data-Driven Software Automation, ICSE2020.

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