'Softie in Question: Ji-Rong Wen

Job title: Senior Researcher - Web Data Management Grop - Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)

Ji-Rong: please tell us about your academic background prior to coming to MSRA?
I received my Ph.D. from the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Why did you choose MSRA over academia?
At the time when I received my Ph.D., MSRA was widely recognized as the best place to do CS research in China. I love research, but ever since my childhood, I’ve always loved to build tangible things that actually work too. So, there’s no place better for this balance than MSRA. I’m lucky that I got in.

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