Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee
李開復
	Kai-Fu Lee in December 2007
Born	December 3, 1961 (age 64); Taipei, Taiwan
Citizenship	Taiwanese; American (until 2011)
Education	Columbia University (BS); Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
Occupations	Businessman; computer scientist; investor; writer;
Known for	Artificial intelligence expertise; Founding Director of Microsoft Research Asia; Former President of Google China; Co-founder of Sinovation Ventures; Founder of 01.AI;
	Scientific career
Fields	Computational linguistics Speech recognition; ;
Thesis	Large-vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech recognition: The SPHINX system (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Raj Reddy

Kai-Fu Lee (traditional Chinese: 李開復; simplified Chinese: 李开复; pinyin: Lǐ Kāifù; born December 3, 1961) is a Taiwanese computer scientist, investor, and author. He was the founding director of Microsoft Research China, later Microsoft Research Asia, serving from 1998 to 2000, and served as president of Google China 2005 to 2009.

In 2009, Lee founded the venture capital firm Innovation Works, later renamed Sinovation Ventures. In 2023, he founded 01.AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company.

Lee is the author of AI Superpowers (2018) and AI 2041 (with Chen Qiufan, 2021). He has served as co‑chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council and was named to TIME's 2023 list of the 100 most influential people in AI.