Ming Zhou
Ming Zhou researches NLP and machine translation. He earned his doctorate at Harbin in 1991, worked at Tsinghua in the 1990s and joined Microsoft Research Asia in 1999. His technical work includes CEMT-I and J-Beijing translation systems. He shared authorship of the 2019 UniLM paper, which unifies language-understanding and generation pretraining. He left Microsoft in late 2020, and Langboat was formally established in June 2021. ACL elected him a Fellow in 2023.
- Now at
- Langboat
- Works
- 307
- Citations
- 26,819
- h-index
- 76
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1991–1999
Translation research and engineering
Zhou earned his Harbin Institute of Technology doctorate in 1991 and worked on CEMT-I Chinese-English translation. Zhou conducted research and taught at Tsinghua from 1991 to 1999, and worked on J-Beijing Chinese-Japanese development from 1993 to 1999. These projects involved language analysis and translation rules.
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1999
Microsoft Research Asia
Zhou joined Microsoft Research Asia in 1999. He led natural-language research, including translation, search, dialogue and language generation.
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2019
Shared UniLM pretraining
Zhou was one of nine authors of UniLM’s 2019 paper, led in the author list by Li Dong. UniLM uses shared Transformer pretraining for language understanding and generation, using different attention masks for several prediction tasks.
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2020–2023
Langboat and ACL recognition
Zhou left Microsoft in late 2020, and Langboat was formally established in June 2021. He is founder and CEO. ACL elected him a Fellow in 2023.
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