On December 16, Tang Xiaoou, the founder of SenseTime Technology and a professor at the University of Chinese University of Hong Kong, passed away suddenly, at the age of 55, Tang Xiaoou is a top scientist in the field of Chinese industrial intelligence, a "pioneer" and "pathfinder" of global face recognition technology, founded by SenseTime Technology is a global leader in the field of face recognition, and this year it is the launch of SenseTime's "Daily New" model, SenseTime related people said, "You really don't know whether tomorrow will come first or impermanence will come first, the superstar has fallen, the sky is jealous of the talent, and I mourn deeply!."”
Today, SenseTime issued an obituary, "Tang Xiaoou, the founder, artificial intelligence scientist, director of Pujiang Laboratory, director of Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and professor of Chinese University of Hong Kong, left us forever at 23:45 on December 15, 2023 due to ineffective treatment. ”
As a leader in the field of artificial intelligence, Professor Tang Xiaoou founded the multi-leading laboratory of Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has been carefully cultivating students for more than 20 years, including Lin Dahua, the initiator of the OpenMMLab project, Wang Xiaogang, chief scientist of SenseTime, etc., among which the most famous is the AI superstar He Kaiming, the master and apprentice wrote a good story in the artificial intelligence industry.
Professor Tang Xiaoou was born in Anshan, Liaoning Province in 1968 and 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 his 30-year academic career achievements have mainly focused on facial recognition technology, with nearly 140,000 citations
SenseTime, founded by Tang Xiaoou, is known as one of the "Four Tigers of AI" in the industry, and is the company with the strongest academic atmosphere in the field of AI, with long-term investment in original technology research.
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