Dr. Bin Shao is the President of Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence. He received his Ph.D. from Fudan University in 2010 and previously served as a senior principal research manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science, where he started the Microsoft Graph Engine project and established both the Computational Biology Research Group and Scientific Computing Research Group.
Dr. Shao has authored over fifty influential papers in leading journals such as Nature and its sister journals, as well as premier academic conferences. Recognized for enduring impact, he received the ICDE 10-Year Influential Paper Award from the International Conference on Data Engineering. His team's seminal breakthroughs in protein dynamics research earned recognition among the 2024 Top 10 Advances in Chinese Bioinformatics.
Dr. Shao initiated and co-developed pioneering open-source projects, including Graph Engine - a distributed in-memory graph computing platform, AI2BMD protein dynamics simulation system achieving quantum-chemical accuracy, and LightAIMD - a lightweight ab initio molecular dynamics simulation program. These contributions have not only advanced scientific research but also accelerated technological progress in their respective fields.