Jian-Guang Lou

About

I am a Sr. principal research manager at Microsoft Research Asia (opens in new tab) 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 (opens in new tab). Here (opens in new tab) is a review article from Mr. Excel (a MVP user of Excel).
2. Our NL technology on Excel has been released (opens in new tab).
3. Technical Briefing: Data-Driven Software Automation (opens in new tab), ICSE2020.

Academic Activities:

• PC member of ASE 2019 research track (opens in new tab)
• PC co-chair of ICSME 2020 industry track (opens in new tab)
• PC member of SIAM SDM 2018/2019/2020
• PC member of ICSE 2021 research track (opens in new tab)
• PC member of ISSTA 2021 (opens in new tab)