Dr. Ming Zhou is the Chief Scientist of Sinovation Ventures AI Institute. Dr. Zhou is a world leading AI scientist and a pioneer in Chinese NLP. Before joining Sinovation, Dr. Zhou was the Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Chair of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) China. He is vice president of China Computer Federation (CCF) and steering committee member of Chinese Information Processing Society of China. He is also a doctorial advisor in Harbin Institute of Technology, Tianjin University, Nankai University, Beihang University, University of Science and Technology of China.