PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Baining Guo

Also known as 郭百宁

Baining Guo is a computer vision researcher whose work includes Swin Transformer and AI for robotic manipulation. He earned degrees at Beijing University and Cornell, joined Microsoft in 1999 after working at Intel, and chaired SIGGRAPH Asia's technical papers program in 2014. Swin Transformer won ICCV's 2021 Marr Prize. In November 2024, he coauthored CogACT for robot manipulation; in 2025, he coauthored an FP4 training framework for large language models; in August 2026, he coauthored a paper on adaptive action horizons. As of October 2026, he is a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research and a Technical Fellow and Deputy Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia.

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Timeline

  1. 1982–1991

    Degrees from Beijing and Cornell

    He earns a B.S. from Beijing University in 1982, then earns M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University in 1989 and 1991.

  2. 1999

    Joining Microsoft from Intel

    He joins Microsoft in 1999 after working as a senior staff researcher with Intel Corporation's Microcomputer Research Labs in Santa Clara, California.

  3. 2014

    Technical Papers Chair at SIGGRAPH Asia

    At SIGGRAPH Asia 2014, he serves as Technical Papers Chair for Microsoft Research Asia.

  4. 2021

    Swin Transformer wins the Marr Prize

    He coauthors Swin Transformer in 2021, a hierarchical vision Transformer that uses shifted windows to limit self-attention to local windows. The model serves as a general-purpose backbone for computer vision, and the paper wins ICCV's Marr Prize.

  5. November 2024

    CogACT for robotic manipulation

    He coauthors CogACT in November 2024, a vision-language-action model for robotic manipulation. Its architecture includes a specialized action module conditioned on vision-language model output.

  6. 2025

    FP4 training for language models

    He coauthors Optimizing Large Language Model Training Using FP4 Quantization in 2025. The paper introduces an FP4 training framework for large language models.

  7. August 2026

    Continue or Replan?

    In August 2026, he coauthors Continue or Replan?, which proposes a Bernoulli-Continuation Policy for adaptive-horizon execution in vision-language-action models.

  8. As of October 2026

    Technical Fellow at Microsoft Research Asia

    He is a Technical Fellow and Deputy Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia. He is also a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research.

Career

  1. Since 1999Microsoft ResearchDistinguished Scientist
  2. Until 1999IntelSenior staff researcher

Education

  1. 1991Cornell UniversityPh.D.
  2. 1989Cornell UniversityM.S.
  3. 1982Peking UniversityB.S.

From the biography.

  1. Among employers with 30+ full-time cases, OpenAI leads primary technical role H-1B pay at $310,000, and Amazon, Google and Microsoft file 57% of all casesIncludes Microsoft. Across 440,669 certified US H-1B filings from 44 employers (FY2020–FY2026), OpenAI leads primary technical role base pay at $310,000 and xAI leads overall base pay at $290,000.
  2. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Includes Microsoft. Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Microsoft. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Microsoft. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Baining Guo dgp.toronto.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Asia Faculty Summit 2012 - Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 Technical Papers sa2014.siggraph.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Baining Guo at Microsoft Research - Publications microsoft.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. CogACT: A Foundational Vision-Language-Action Model for Synergizing Cognition and Action in Robotic Manipulation arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Optimizing Large Language Model Training Using FP4 Quantization arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Continue or Replan? Bernoulli-Continuation Policy Learning for Adaptive Horizon Execution arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Baining Guo at Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. Microsoft Research Asia - Microsoft Research: About Us microsoft.com. Checked 21 October 2026.