Xiao Tu is a Partner Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 16+ years of industrial R&D experience building applied machine learning, natural user interfaces, and full-stack platform services across Windows, Azure, and O365. He has led manager-of-managers organizations, shipped key elements of Windows touch/pen input and IE11, and brought Ink Recognizer and cloud-based ink intelligence to market while managing teams of engineers, ML scientists and cross‑company hardware partners. A Ph.D. with 14+ publications and 30+ US patents, he combines deep research pedigree with product delivery across device, OS and cloud boundaries. Known for incubating technologies from prototype to product, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on expertise in handwriting recognition, input personalization and scalable AI services.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ph.D, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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