Summary
Lihang Li is a Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft with eight years of experience building production-grade AI, computer vision, and distributed systems for Azure. He has led teams across Azure Media Services, Cognitive Services, and Live Video Analytics to deliver scalable Video Intelligence, Content Understanding with LLMs, and AI-powered search/knowledge retrieval. His recent work focuses on RAG, AI knowledge systems, and integrating Azure AI Search to make multimodal insights actionable for customers. Lihang combines hands-on model development and integration with large-scale service engineering, repeatedly moving research prototypes into resilient cloud services. Trained in computer vision and SLAM at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, he pairs strong academic foundations with pragmatic product delivery. Based in Redmond, he’s known for bridging model innovation and operational excellence to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Vision, SLAM, Master's Degree, Computer Vision, SLAM at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical ,Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical ,Software Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese