Gang Hua
Also known as 华刚
Gang Hua is a researcher in computer vision, the field that gives AI systems the ability to interpret images and video. He earned a PhD at Northwestern University in 2006 after degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University, and he worked at Microsoft and Nokia before joining IBM Research. The International Association for Pattern Recognition named him a Fellow in 2016, and he served as a program chair for CVPR in 2019 and again in 2022. From 2018 to 2024 he was chief technology officer of Convenience Bee and led its research arm, Wormpex AI Research, as chief scientist and managing director. He is a Director of Applied Science at Amazon Alexa AI, having previously been vice president of Dolby Laboratories' Multimodal Experiences Research Lab from 2024 to 2025.
Timeline
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1999–2006
Degrees from Xi'an and Northwestern
He earns bachelor's and master's degrees at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1999 and 2002. He completes a PhD at Northwestern University in 2006.
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2006–2010
Research labs at Microsoft and Nokia
He joins Microsoft Live Labs Research as a scientist in 2006 and moves to Nokia Research Center Hollywood as a senior researcher in 2009.
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2010–2015
An associate professor at Stevens
He joins IBM Research in 2010 and becomes an associate professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in 2011. During 2014–2015, he works on the Amazon Go project while on leave.
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2015–2018
Computer vision at Microsoft Research
He joins Microsoft in 2015 and works in several roles, including senior principal researcher and research manager. In a 2018 Microsoft Research podcast, he discusses how the latest advances in AI and machine learning are improving image recognition and video understanding.
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2016
Named an IAPR Fellow
The International Association for Pattern Recognition names him a Fellow in 2016 for contributions to visual computing and learning from unconstrained images and videos.
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2018–2024
Chief scientist and CVPR program chair
He becomes chief technology officer of Convenience Bee in 2018 and leads its research arm, Wormpex AI Research, as chief scientist and managing director until 2024. He also serves as a program chair for CVPR in 2019 and again in 2022.
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2024–2025
Vice president at Dolby Laboratories
He serves as vice president of the Multimodal Experiences Research Lab at Dolby Laboratories from 2024 to 2025.
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Since 2025
Director of Applied Science at Amazon
He is a Director of Applied Science at Amazon Alexa AI, where he leads efforts to build personalized, proactive, autonomous and multimodal conversational agents for Alexa.
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