Houdong Hu
Principal Engineering Manager, Core AI at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHoudong Hu is an applied scientist and engineering leader with a decade of experience building large-scale multimodal AI and GenAI services at Microsoft that serve tens of millions of users. He has led teams of 10–20 engineers and scientists to deliver productionized foundation models, visual search at web scale, and enterprise document understanding and memory APIs for Azure. His work spans computer vision, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, and cloud serviceization—backed by 20 U.S. patents and over 7,000 citations. Notably, he helped build billion-scale data foundations for Project Florence and medical imaging platforms at 100M+ scale, combining research depth from a PhD in physics/applied math with product-grade engineering. Based in Bellevue, WA, he is adept at translating cutting-edge research into widely used cloud products and customization programs for diverse languages and verticals.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor's Degree Special Class for the Gifted Young, Bachelor's Degree Special Class for the Gifted Young at University of Science and Technology of China
Github Skills (13)
cookbook10
rpc10
protobuf10
protocol-buffers10
serialization10
protoc9
interchange8
marshalling8
data-interchange8
csharp7
dex3
android2
shell2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
imaxct/signer
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
imaxct/imaxct.github.io
Jan 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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