Harry Shum 

Council Chairman of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Dr. Harry Shum is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an expert on computer vision and computer graphics. He currently serves as Council Chairman of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Dr. Shum was previously Executive Vice President of Microsoft Corporation, responsible for driving the company’s overall AI strategy and forward-looking research and development efforts spanning infrastructure, services, apps and agents. He also led Microsoft Research, one of the world’s premier computer science research labs.