Jianchang Mao
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Jianchang (JC) Mao | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 1963 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Michigan State University, East China Normal University |
| Awards | IEEE Fellow, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, Distinguished Alumni Awards, IEEE Paper Award, Yahoo! Leadership Superstar Award, etc. |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, AI, Online Advertising |
| Institutions | Microsoft, Yahoo!, Verity Inc., IBM |
Jianchang (JC) Mao (born in November 1963) is a Chinese-American computer scientist and Vice President, Google Assistant Engineering at Google. His research spans artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational advertising, data mining, and information retrieval. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012[1] for his contributions to pattern recognition, search, content analysis, and computational advertising.
Mao grew up in Zhejiang, China. He got his bachelor's degree in Physics and master's degree in Electronics from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. He studied artificial neural networks, pattern recognition and machine learning at Michigan State University under the supervision of University Distinguished Professor Anil K. Jain and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994.
Career
Mao began his career in the US at the IBM Almaden Research Center, California, in 1994. He was a research staff member there till 2000 when he joined Verity Inc., a leader in Enterprise Search (acquired by Autonomy and then by Hewlett-Packard). From 2000 to 2004, Mao was a principal architect and director of emerging technologies at Verity. From 2004 to 2012, Mao served various leadership positions at Yahoo!. Mao was vice president and head of advertising sciences at Yahoo! Labs, overseeing the R&D of advertising technologies and products including search advertising, contextual advertising, display advertising, targeting, and categorization. In his early years at Yahoo!, Mao was the science and engineering director responsible for the development of back-end technologies for several Yahoo! social search products, including MyWeb and Yahoo! Answers. Mao joined Microsoft in 2012. He served as Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Advertising Products and Engineering. His organization was responsible for building advertising platforms, technologies, and products, and running a multi-billion-dollar advertising marketplace that serves both search ads and native ads on search and content publishers including Bing, Verizon Media, Microsoft News, and Outlook in the US and international markets. He is currently Vice President, Google Assistant Engineering at Google.
