Too suddenly!The founder of a well known company passed away in the middle of the night

Mondo Technology Updated on 2024-01-29

On December 16, SenseTime released an obituary on WeChat***, and Tang Xiaoou, the founder of SenseTime, unfortunately passed away on December 15 at the age of 55.

Xiaoou Tang is mainly engaged in research in computer vision-related fields, including multi-vision, computer vision, pattern recognition and processing. Tang Xiaoou is recognized as a leader in the field of AI, and after his death, many insiders sighed: God is jealous of talents. According to a number of ** reports, Shang Hailong, general manager of SenseTime Hong Kong Company, posted a circle of friends saying that the superstar has fallen, and God is jealous of the talent, and he mourns deeply.

According to the official website of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tang Xiaoou graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1990He received a master's degree from the University of Rochester in 1991He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 and then joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor and then an associate professorFrom 2005 to 2007, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia as the director of the Visual Computing Group.

According to the data of the multi-**laboratory** of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2023, Tang Xiaoou has published more than 400 articles**.

SenseTime said in its obituary that Tang Xiaoou is willing to serve as a ladder for others, reward post-graduates, be determined to innovate, bravely shoulder heavy responsibilities, dedicate all his energy to computer science research, actively promote the development of original technology, and make outstanding contributions to the development of science and technology in the field of artificial intelligence in China. He has been cultivating students for more than 20 years.

Tang Xiaoou **SenseTime Technology.

Since June 2014, Tang Xiaoou began to publish the DeepID series of algorithms, which gradually improved the accuracy of face recognition to 9955%, which has opened the era of technology landing in the entire face recognition industry. This has also become a benchmark event for SenseTime.

In October 2014, SenseTime Technology was officially established, and before its establishment, it had received tens of millions of dollars in Series A financing from IDG, which can be said to be born with a "golden spoon". At the end of 2021, SenseTime was listed in Hong Kong, creating the world's largest IPO in the AI field. By the beginning of 2022, its market capitalization once exceeded HK$200 billion.

At present, SenseTime's business mainly covers four major sectors: smart business, smart city, smart life, and smart car. The products cover key technical fields such as perceptual intelligence, natural language processing, decision intelligence, and intelligent content generation, as well as key capabilities including AI chips, AI sensors, and AI computing infrastructure. In addition, SenseTime has created a new type of artificial intelligence infrastructure, "SenseSenseCore".

*: SenseTime Technology WeChat***China News Network, Governor of Chang'an Street, Zhejiang News.

Edited by Jia Kai and reviewed by Jiang Bo and Du Haifeng.

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