PeopleofSuperintelligence

Lab leader

Chong Luo

Chong Luo is a computer-vision researcher at Microsoft Research Asia whose work ranges from visual tracking to data-efficient vision models, multimodal learning and computer-use agents. She earned degrees at Fudan University, the National University of Singapore and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and joined MSRA in 2003. Across computer vision and multimodal learning, she coauthored SA-Siam, Visual Token Matching, Chameleon, Phi-Ground and LLM2CLIP; Visual Token Matching received an ICLR Outstanding Paper Award in 2023, and LLM2CLIP received an AAAI Outstanding Paper Award in 2026. As of October 2026, she is General Manager of Research Sciences at Microsoft Research Asia and Director of the Shanghai Lab.

Works
104
Citations
5,498
h-index
29
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2000–2012

    Degrees at Fudan, NUS and SJTU

    She earns a B.Sc. in computer science at Fudan University in 2000 and an M.Sc. in computer science at the National University of Singapore in 2002. She completes a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012.

  2. Since 2003

    Joining Microsoft Research Asia

    In 2003, she joins Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA). Her research interests span computer vision, multimodal AI, image and video understanding and generation, large language models, AI agents and human-AI collaboration.

  3. 2018

    A real-time Siamese tracker

    In 2018, she coauthors A Twofold Siamese Network for Real-Time Object Tracking. Its SA-Siam model combines a semantic branch and an appearance branch, which the authors train separately to keep their features distinct.

  4. 2023

    Visual Token Matching wins at ICLR

    With Donggyun Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Seongwoong Cho and Seunghoon Hong, she coauthors Visual Token Matching, a few-shot method for dense prediction tasks including semantic segmentation, depth estimation, edge detection and keypoint detection. The paper receives an ICLR Outstanding Paper Award in 2023.

  5. 2024

    Chameleon for dense prediction

    In 2024, she coauthors Chameleon, a data-efficient generalist for dense visual prediction. It adapts to unseen tasks across video, 3D, medical, biological and user-interactive settings with at most 50 labeled images.

  6. July 2025

    Phi-Ground for GUI grounding

    In July 2025, she coauthors Phi-Ground Tech Report, which presents the Phi-Ground model family for GUI grounding in computer-use agents. The model family achieves state-of-the-art results across all five grounding benchmarks for models under 10B parameters in agent settings.

  7. 2026

    LLM2CLIP wins an AAAI award

    In 2024, she coauthors LLM2CLIP, an efficient fine-tuning framework that embeds an LLM into pretrained CLIP at nearly standard CLIP fine-tuning cost. The paper receives an AAAI-26 Outstanding Paper Award in 2026.

  8. As of October 2026

    General manager and lab director

    As of October 2026, she is General Manager of Research Sciences at Microsoft Research Asia and Director of the Shanghai Lab.

Career

  1. Since 2003Microsoft Research AsiaComputer vision researcher
  2. 2006–2026Microsoft

Education

  1. 2012Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityPh.D.
  2. 2002National University of SingaporeM.Sc.
  3. 2000Fudan UniversityB.Sc.

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Chong Luo. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Uncoded Multimedia Transmission - 1st Edition - Feng Wu - Chong Luo - routledge.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Chong Luo at Microsoft Research microsoft.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. A Twofold Siamese Network for Real-Time Object Tracking arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. Announcing the ICLR 2023 Outstanding Paper Award Recipients – ICLR Blog blog.iclr.cc. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Chameleon: A Data-Efficient Generalist for Dense Visual Prediction in the Wild arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Phi-Ground Tech Report: Advancing Perception in GUI Grounding arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. LLM2CLIP: Powerful Language Model Unlocks Richer Cross-Modality Representation arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. AAAI Conference Paper Awards and Recognition - AAAI aaai.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. LLM2CLIP: Powerful Language Model Unlocks Richer Visual Representation microsoft.github.io. Checked 22 October 2026.