Heung-Yeung "Harry" Shum is a Chinese computer scientist.
13 Facts About Harry Shum
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Harry Shum is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics, and for the development of the search engine Bing.
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Harry Shum got his bachelor's degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, and a master's degree from Hong Kong University.
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Harry Shum studied at Carnegie Mellon University and earned a Ph.
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Harry Shum then moved to Microsoft Research China when it was founded in 1998.
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In November 2019, it was reported by Mary Jo Foley in ZDNet that Shum was leaving Microsoft on 1 February 2020.
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In March 2020, Harry Shum was re-appointed as an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University's Institute for Advanced Study where he co-leads the computer vision and computer graphics PhD program.
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In March 2023, Harry Shum was appointed as the Council Chairman of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Harry Shum has published over 200 papers at international conferences and journals.
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Harry Shum is a pioneer and proponent of research on interactive computer vision.
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Harry Shum has published many important interactive computer vision papers on ACM SIGGRAPH.
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Harry Shum was active in Image-based modeling and rendering, which is an important field in realistic computer graphics.
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Harry Shum received the Honorary Fellowship from the University of Hong Kong in 2017.