{"id":447903,"date":"2026-05-14T04:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447903\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:55:08","slug":"lead-microsoft-ai-scientist-li-hongzhi-joins-chinas-tongji-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447903\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Microsoft AI scientist Li Hongzhi joins China\u2019s Tongji University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Li Hongzhi, an award-winning former head of GenAI at Microsoft Asia, has joined <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/tongji-university?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tongji University<\/a>, one of China\u2019s leading universities.Li started his first job at technology giant <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/microsoft?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft<\/a> immediately after obtaining his PhD from Columbia University.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For more than 10 years, he worked at Microsoft Research \u2013 the company\u2019s subsidiary responsible for basic and applied research in computer science, software engineering and hardware design.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Li was the head of Microsoft AI Asia\u2019s GenAI Group before joining Tongji.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to the university, Li recently returned to China and is a distinguished tenured professor at its Institute of AI for Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Why are more Chinese scientists leaving the US to return to China?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The South China Morning Post has contacted Li for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Li Hongzhi, an award-winning former head of GenAI at Microsoft Asia, has joined Tongji University, one of China\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[194848,114,194847,194849,30823,61,194853,60,194851,1071,194850,194852,178923,5698,10178,80,153929,113706],"class_list":["post-447903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-acm-multimedia","tag-china","tag-colombia-university","tag-cvpr","tag-genai","tag-ie","tag-institute-of-ai-for-engineering","tag-ireland","tag-li-hongzhi","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai-asia","tag-microsoft-research","tag-redmond","tag-shanghai","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-technology","tag-tongji-university","tag-zhejiang-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}