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Tang Xiao'ou, the Chinese University of Hong Kong professor who turned his computer science laboratory into a multibillion-dollar business and leader in artificial intelligence called SenseTime, has died. He was 55. Tang founded SenseTime in 2014 with a group of computer scientists including Xu Li, an alumnus of the university and the company's current CEO. With research interests spanning computer vision, pattern recognition, and video processing, Tang worked as the group manager of the Visual Computing Group at Microsoft Research Asia from 2005 to 2008. His academic career at the Chinese University (CUHK) began in 1998. During his tenure, he mentored many accomplished engineers and computer scientists who would go on to spur China's lead in facial recognition, pattern recognition, and many applications in artificial intelligence. SenseTime's rapid growth over the past decade led to it being referred to as one of China's 'four little dragons' of AI, along with Cloudwalk Technology, Megvii and Yitu. It went public in Hong Kong in December 2021. Tang was SenseTime's largest shareholder, holding 20.63% of the company with 68.28% of its voting rights.

Biography:  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tang-xiaoou-cuhk-professor-founder-093000292.html

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