Dr. Tao Qin is a Senior Principal Researcher and Manager at Microsoft Research Asia, and an Adjunct Professor (PhD advisor) at the University of Science and Technology of China. He coined the term dual learning together with his colleagues, and has published numerous papers on the topic in Neur IPS/ICLR/ICML/AAAI/IJCAI/CVPR/ACL/EMNLP/NAACL. His research interests include machine learning (with the focus on deep learning and reinforcement learning), artificial intelligence (with applications to language understanding, speech processing and computer vision), game theory and multi-agent systems (with applications to cloud computing, online and mobile advertising, ecommerce), information retrieval and computational advertising.
Dr. Qin has published over 100 refereed papers at prestigious conferences such asNeur IPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, KDD, WWW, SIGIR, WSDM, JAIR, EC, WINE, and ACM Transactions. He served/is serving as Area Chair for AAAI, IJCAI, EMNLP, AAMAS, SIGIR and ACML, Workshop Chair for WWW 2020, and Industry Chair for DAI 2019. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM.