Haifeng Wang
Haifeng Wang has served as our chief technology officer since May 2019. Dr. Wang joined Baidu in 2010 and was promoted to vice president in 2013. Dr. Wang oversaw our core search products from 2014 to 2017. He was promoted to senior vice president in 2018. Prior to Baidu, Dr. Wang served as the chief research scientist at Toshiba’s R&D Center. Dr. Wang is the director of the National Engineering Research Center of Deep Learning Technology and Application. Dr. Wang is an IEEE fellow, and a fellow (and former president) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the founding chair of ACL’s Asia-Pacific chapter. Dr. Wang obtained his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Harbin Institute of Technology.