Jun Wu

Jun Wu

Famous computer scientist,Chairman of SVIEF,Author of bestselling books "On Top of Tides" and "The Age of Intelligence"


Dr. Jun Wu is a leading expert in speech recognition, natural language processing, and web search. He joined Google in 2002, where he co-founded the company’s search antitrust research effort and led multiple key projects. From 2010 to 2012, as Vice President at Tencent, he directed search, search ads, cloud computing, and mapping, growing these businesses sixfold during his tenure.

Dr. Wu serves on the Board of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University and advises China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He is also the award-winning author of The Wave of the Future, The Beauty of Mathematics, The Radiance of Civilization, The Path to Higher Education, The Silicon Valley Enigma, and The Intelligent Era. Holding over ten U.S. and international patents, he has published extensively and won Best Paper Awards at both the Eurospeech Conference and the China Conference on Speech Communication.