um, this is a long story, really. I waas graduate student in Beijing Qinghua University. At that time, it was very hard for me to type into the Western keyboard for Chinese. So the dream I had was Hey, speech is a natural communication modality. We're not just, you know, you have people to talk. This was the beginning of my career, and then I moved to Scotland, started, You know, my PhD on the University of Edinburgh. This was a fantastic place, you know. You, Edinburgh, As you know, Charles Darwin Maxwell, Andi Pace. Geoff Hinton. This is the father of modern ai all study in the same place. And after I got my PhD, I joined the Khalidi melon. I waas the, you know, able to work with what you ready on speech on the same you, Andi. Then we actually did something amazing. Created one for the best of the systems in the top of benchmark. Microsoft noticed the achievement from the same menu and high most of the people from the same USP school. So I was fascinated with the opportunity to really make a huge impact with the real product. Um, that was 27 years ago, I never actually changed the company. Um, so that persistence with a sense of purpose with passion really helped to get where I am today.

So I'm the new cto off you, AI. This is the you know the Cloud ai services. You know, covering four major pillars the perceptively airport. We have computer speech on the computer vision. This is to enable people to see and here on the cognitive, what is the language on the decision? So I'm responsible for the Microsoft AI researcher and engineering Onda the ability to bring amazing technology into the hands off our customers. So we need to drive technology breakthrough. This is big data. Bigger computing really approach the data responsibly. That can make a I as the enabling technology to digitally transform almost everything.priority number one is really make sure the air quality is fantastic. So Microsoft, in the last few years really rich first major milestones in the industry. We were the first company in reaching human parity. Transcribing conversational speech. We were the first company enabled the translation reaching human priority on the news on DWI were also the first company enabling the image captioning, object detection, reaching human parity so amazing air breakthroughs is happening on the daily basis every year. Microsoft had one or two human parody milestone under the priority is really make sure that technology is getting into the production on Azure, that people can have easy access. So the second priority is really in addition to the driving quality and the scientific breakthrough, we need to bring that cost effective way to serve the customers. Then, once we have that, we need to really help customers toe address the last mile because everyone has, you know, different requirements. We need to have the mechanism to rapidly deploy this technology to help the society. So the number of top three is in the air quality. On the scientific breakthrough on, we need to have modern platform that's cost effective on the last and most important that we need to delight customers

the platform off Zhu is really just amazing. We are really pleased to see how effective this is I wanted. I cite a few examples. You can see the impact from the students. Point of view, as you know, covered. An idea is really changing the so many people's lives. Um, so in Italy, you know, just a few months ago, we deployed this automatic voice services in Italian post office. So we're serving the country on the daily basis with 100 thousands, of course, each day. Because of the cover, the 19 impact in C. D. C. Microsoft deployed this health Q and A. Bonds. So if anyone has questions about the covered 19 c D. C. Website has a health bob that can answer the question based on the, you know conversation, you have ANDI in a American college board. Because most students are working from home, we enabled the AP test remotely, so we're handwriting recognition Andi in the UK and address This is a national health services in In the UK, Microsoft AI is enabling the identity verification through facial recognition. So what is in Italy? U. S C. D. C or U K. You can see worldwide were deployed. This AI services globally toe help the society fighting covered in 19 that is some of the latest example off the impact.