Xiao Tu

About Xiao Tu

Experienced group engineering manager with track-record of leading technology innovation, delivering high quality software and services, and growing customer satisfaction and business. Proven ability to attract and develop talents, drive changes.21 years’ industrial R&D experiences in applied machine learning on edge devices and scalable Cloud services, natural user interactions, developer platform, web platform, browser, operating systems, user experiences, handwriting recognition, personalization, ink analysis, and text prediction.Manager of manager in 3 Microsoft organizations (Windows, Azure and O365) with experience managing full stack developers, machine learning scientists, as well as hardware and software ecosystem engagements (both 1st party and 3rd party). Manager for entire product cycle of Windows 7, Windows 8, IE 11, and Windows 10. Ph.D. in engineering with 14+ publications. Inventor of 30+ US patents.

Experience

1. Partner Group Engineering Manager

   Microsoft

   Mar 2021 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Leading multi-modal and agentic AI for productivity scenarios.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Ph.D, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

  1998 — 2003

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  B.S., Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science

  1990 — 1994

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  M.S., Computer Science

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• C++
• Software Architectural Design
• C#
• .net
• Multithreading
• Java
• Software Design
• Debugging
• Windows
• Tablet Pc
• Algorithms
• Mobile Applications
• Architectures
• Uml
• Web Applications
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Operating System Development
• Api Development
• Computer Science
• Object Oriented Design
• Win32 Api