Author

Shuaiwen Leon Song is a senior principal scientist and research manager at Microsoft. He leads the Deepspeed4Science initiative to create a broad engagement between Microsoft, Microsoft research, DoE labs, academia and industry partners to enable sophisticated system technology research and development that are tailored for accelerating scientific discoveries. At DeepSpeed, he also drives or co-drives several pathfinding projects and releases (e.g., ZeRO inference, scalable dialogue system design and DeepSpeed Chat). He also co-manages the Brainwave team at WebXT/Bing which is a signature Microsoft AI production project. Prior to Microsoft, he was the SOAR associate professor at University of Sydney and an adjunct professor at University of Washington. His past works in high performance computing have received several best paper nominations and were featured in U.S. DoE research highlights and other media outlets.