Houdong Hu
- Role
- Principal Engineering Manager, Azure at Microsoft
- Location
- Bellevue, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Houdong Hu
Experienced applied scientist and engineering leader with deep expertise in LLMs…
Experience
Principal Engineering Manager, Azure
Apr 2020 — Present
Lead Azure Custom Vision team (20 talented engineers and scientists, 40+ engineering and annotationvendors) to work on multimodal foundation model and build industry leading computer vision servicesin Azure.• Lead AI quality and responsible AI benchmarking for GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Azure OpenAI Service.Drive GPT-4 Turbo with Vision enhancements by incorporating OCR for precise text recognition inimages, object grounding for accurate location identification of objects, and integration of customerdatabase via retrieval augmented generation.• Lead the development of data foundation and cloud services for Project Florence (Florence-2 and Florence-1), offering light-weighted alternatives to GPT-4 Turbo with Vision. Built web-scale data processing pipelines and delivered 10 billion multimodal data for Project Florence. Developed following computer vision services empowered by Florence:– Azure Image Retrieval Service, currently in the process of being integratedto OneDrive. – Azure Vision Model Customization Service. – Shelf Understanding and Planogram Compliance Service.– Azure Smart Cropping Service. Shipped to OneDrive.– Azure Background Removal Service, currently in the process of being integratedto Powerpoint. • Lead the development of data foundation and cloud services for medical imaging vertical in collaboration with Nuance. Building a data foundation in 100M scale across various modalities(e.g, X-ray, CT, MRI, etc.). Launched a medical image search service in private preview and developinga report generation service.Positions include:• Principal Engineering Manager (Sep 2021 - Now)• Principal Applied Scientist Manager (Apr 2020 - Sep 2021)
Education
UC San Diego
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics and Applied Mathematics
University of Science and Technology of China
Bachelor's Degree, Special Class for the Gifted Young
Skills
- Numerial Optimization
- Predictive Modeling
- Statistical Modeling
- Numerical Pde
- Visual Search
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Parallel Computing
- Applied Mathematics
- Computer Vision
- Distributed Systems
- Data Mining
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