ZHANG Yaqin

   

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President, Baidu

Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang is currently the President of Baidu. Prior to joining Baidu, Zhang was Microsoft's Corporate Vice President, Chairman of Asia R&D Group and Microsoft China, and made outstanding contributions to the Internet and software industry. Zhang is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and International Academy for Europe and Asia as well as an Honorary Fellow of Hong Kong University of Science and technology. He has been granted more than 60 US patents and published more than 500 papers and 11 monographs. He is an honorary or guest professor at more than 20 prestigious universities, and advisor to several government agencies. Zhang is also the vice Chairman of Committee 100, a group of leading Chinese-Americans to promote the political, scientific, social, and economic exchanges between the US and China.