Tang Xiaoou Source: Official website of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
On December 16, multiple channels confirmed that Tang Xiaoou, an artificial intelligence scientist and founder and chairman of SenseTime, passed away at the age of 55.
For an entrepreneur, it's time to do big things, but he's gone!
SenseTime responded that an announcement will be issued later today to introduce the specific situation.
According to Tencent News's "Frontline", on the afternoon of December 16, Shang Hailong, general manager of SenseTime Hong Kong, said in his circle of friends that the superstar has fallen, and the sky is jealous of the talent, and he mourns deeply.
According to public information, Tang Xiaoou was born in Anshan, Liaoning Province in 1968, and is mainly engaged in research in computer vision-related fields, including multi-science, computer vision, pattern recognition and processing.
Tang Xiaoou is a standard scholar-type entrepreneur.
He was the Director of the Visual Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia, a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Chinese Hong Kong, a Distinguished Scholar in the School of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, a Vice President and PhD Supervisor of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Director of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
As the founder of SenseTime, a Chinese artificial intelligence technology company, Tang Xiaoou is best known for his innovative research and technological development in global facial recognition technology.
The development of face recognition technology in the world today also has a great credit to him!
After graduating from the University Xi of Science and Technology of China in 1990, Tang Xiaoou went to the United States for further study, and after studying hard, he obtained a master's degree from the University of Rochester in 1991 and entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study for a doctorate.
It was also at this time that he began to come into contact with facial recognition algorithms.
After receiving his Ph.D. in 1996, Tang returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States and created the story of establishing MMLAB at Chinese University in Hong Kong.
In this matter, he has cultivated a group of outstanding Chinese young scientists in computer vision, who have played an important role in both academia and industry, forming the "Hong Kong Chinese phenomenon" in the field of computer vision in China.
In July 2001, Tang Xiaoou single-handedly established the Multi-Mathematics Laboratory (MMLAB) of the University of Hong Kong Chinese to deeply explore the research work in the field of computer vision.
The start-up team of this lab is the predecessor of SenseTime.
With the deep learning Xi platform as the core "brain", SenseTime has laid out technical fields such as face recognition, image recognition, advanced analysis, autonomous driving, and medical image analysis, and then developed rapidly, and it did not take long to become a benchmark and leader in the industry.
Tang Xiaoou is also known as the "pioneer" and "pathfinder" of global face recognition technology in the industry.
From 2005 to 2007, Tang Xiaoou worked at Microsoft Research Asia, where he served as the director of the Visual Computing Group. In 2008, he worked in the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology as a director and researcher.
Since 2009, Tang has also been a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and has served as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computer Vision, an important journal in the field of computer vision, and the chairman of the International Conference on Computer Vision, a major conference in the field of computer vision.
He has also served as a director of the Hong Kong Artificial Intelligence and Data Lab since May 2018 and the head of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center since August 2020.
It is understood that Tang Xiaoou also served as a board member of the National Treasury Holdings Group and the Hong Kong Science Park Corporation from June 2019 to April 2020 and July 2018 to March 2021 respectively.
In 2020, Tang Xiaoou was named one of the top five computer scientists in Asia by guide2research. Winning such an honor is completely worthy of the name for Tang Xiaoou.
Under the leadership of Tang Xiaoou, SenseTime is also the first national "intelligent vision" national next-generation artificial intelligence open innovation platform designated by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and has rapidly developed into the first listed company of the "AI Four Tigers".
So far, Tang Xiaoou has established SenseTime Technology for more than 10 years, and under his leadership, it has become a world-class artificial intelligence overall solution provider, and his worth has already exceeded 10 billion.
In March 2023, Tang Xiaoou ranked 1782nd in the "Hurun Global 100 Rich List" with a value of 13 billion yuan.
In October 2023, he ranked 585th in the "Hurun Report" with a value of 10 billion yuan, although his personal wealth decreased by 3 billion yuan, but if calculated by his origin, he has been the "richest man in Anshan" for two consecutive years.
Some people say that aside from other factors, Tang Xiaoou is an outstanding representative of self-made.
Tang Xiaoou almost relied on his own strength to work hard to achieve today's achievements.
What happened to Tao Xiaoou?
In July this year, Tang Xiaoou also attended the 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, where he stood on the stage to introduce the latest progress of him and his team in the field of original innovation, and he also reviewed the contributions of his three students in their respective positions over the past decade.
People who have crossed paths with him recall that he was in a good state at that time, but he didn't expect him to resign in just a few months, which was too sudden and a huge loss to China's science and technology innovation community.
After the news of Tang Xiaoou's death spread, many netizens speculated whether his death in his sleep was caused by too much pressure.
I don't know this for the time being, in addition to Tang Xiaoou, Sun Jian also left, and the death of the two AI bosses one after another made many people heartbroken.
In the first half of 2023, SenseTime-W achieved an operating income of 143.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 126%；Net profit attributable to the parent company - 312.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 111%。
As of December 15, Hong Kong stocks**, SenseTime-W reported 1HK$26 shares,**328%, market capitalization 421HK$7.1 billion.
One person cheers for the graduate school entrance examination A company has risen, but the big guy is young but has passed away, which is really a sigh!
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