Wu Jun

Wu Jun

Wu Jun, male, Han nationality, born in April 1967, graduated from Tsinghua University and Johns Hopkins University. Former senior researcher of Google. Former vice president of Tencent. Computer scientist, best-selling author. Silicon Valley venture capital. Consultant to the Ministry of industry and information technology and director of Johns Hopkins University School of technology. Experts in artificial intelligence, natural language processing and web search. Visiting professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University. The head of Google's question answering system and many innovative products. Dr. Wu Jun is the main designer of Google's Chinese, Japanese and Korean search algorithm. His works include the beauty of mathematics, the top of the tide, the light of civilization, the road of University, attitude, the general history of global science and technology, insight, the mystery of Silicon Valley, the age of intelligence, pattern and information transmission.

In 2007, he started serializing articles in Google blackboard. He analyzed the major enterprises in the Internet and communication industry, and then compiled the book "the top of the wave", which became a best seller as soon as it was published, with Douban score of 9.1. Wu Jun has published more than 10 books, with a total sales of more than 3 million sets. One of Wu Jun's characteristics is that he is cross-border. If the previously published "top of the tide" and "beauty of mathematics" have something to do with science and engineering, the span of "light of civilization" is really big. This book about human civilization completely breaks the boundary between science and technology and humanity.

Wu also likes tourism, music, badminton, opera, photography, red wine and even gardening. Chatting with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs is also one of his hobbies.

On June 15, 2012, Wu Jun issued a microblog, suggesting that he had left Tencent.

Personal experience

Dr. Wu Jun, an alumnus of grade 81 of high school affiliated to Tsinghua University, graduated from the Department of computer science of Tsinghua University (Bachelor's degree) and the Department of electronic engineering of Tsinghua University (Master's degree), and was a lecturer in Tsinghua University from 1993 to 1996.

He has been studying for a doctor's degree in Johns Hopkins University since 1996, and received a doctor's degree in Computer Science in 2002.

During his stay in Tsinghua University and Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Wu Jun devoted himself to speech recognition, natural language processing, especially statistical language model. He won the best paper award of 1995 National Conference on man machine voice intelligent interface and the best paper award of EUROSPEECH in 2000.

Dr. Wu Jun joined Google in 2002 as a senior researcher of Google Research Institute. Not long after he arrived at Google, he and three colleagues started the research field of online search anti cheating and won the Engineering Award for it.

In 2003, he and two colleagues set up the Chinese, Japanese and Korean search department. Dr. Wu Jun is the main designer of Google's Chinese, Japanese and Korean search algorithm. While at Google, he led many R & D projects, including many Chinese related products and natural language processing projects, and was highly praised by Eric Schmidt, the company's CEO.

Dr. Wu Jun has published dozens of papers at home and abroad, and has obtained and applied for nearly ten US and international patents. Since 2005, he has been elected to the board of directors of the Department of computer science at Johns Hopkins University.

Wu Jun is a good photographer and a fan of classical music. He likes to enjoy high-quality movies and TV programs, such as Blu ray movies. Sometimes I repair the garden and even do some carpentry work. Travel many times a year. Of course, I write for Google China Blog from time to time. There used to be a lot of reading, but now there are too many things to read. Besides, he is also a good wine connoisseur. His favorite wines are Bordeaux and Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa Valley, California.

In 2010, Dr. Wu Jun left Google and joined Tencent as vice president of search business. And as the national major special "new generation of search engine and browser" project chief.

On June 15, 2012, Wu Jun, Tencent's vice president in charge of search, issued a microblog, suggesting that he had left Tencent. Wu Jun's departure is also seen as Tencent's shock after the restructuring of search.

personal works

His works include the beauty of mathematics, the top of the tide, attitude, insight, the age of intelligence, the general history of global science and technology, the light of civilization, and the road of University.

Top of the wave is a book about the rise and fall of the Internet and it industry (or TMT industry in a broader sense). The content of the book was first published by Dr. Wu Jun in Google blackboard. After several years of accumulation, it was compiled by the electronic industry press.