- Chief Technology Officer, Zoom1
Xuedong (X.D.) Huang is chief technology officer at Zoom, where Huang leads the company's AI strategy and services. Before joining Zoom in 2023, Huang worked at Microsoft as Azure AI CTO and technical fellow; Huang began Microsoft's speech technology group in 1993 and led Microsoft AI teams to human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision. Huang is a co-author of the 2014 Microsoft Research report introducing CNTK, the Computational Network Toolkit, and is an IEEE and ACM Fellow and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Chief Technology Officer
- Company
- Zoom
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Speech and audio, Language models
- Education
- Carnegie Mellon, Tsinghua, Edinburgh
- Work listed
- 2
- Honors
- 5
- Sources cited
- 4
- Profile reviewed
Career
Xuedong Huang started Microsoft's speech technology group in 1993 and later served at Microsoft as Azure AI CTO and technical fellow.1
Huang joined Zoom in 2023 as chief technology officer, leading the company's AI strategy and services.1
Research
Huang led Microsoft AI teams that reported human-parity results in several areas. Huang co-authored Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition (2016), measured on the NIST 2000 conversational speech test set, and Achieving Human Parity on Automatic Chinese to English News Translation (2018).134
Zoom's biography notes that Huang is the author of two books and an inventor on U.S. patents in speech and AI.1
Work and contributions
Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) Published research
Co-author of "An Introduction to Computational Networks and the Computational Network Toolkit" (Microsoft Research technical report MSR-TR-2014-112), which describes CNTK, a toolkit for describing and training learning machines such as deep and recurrent neural networks on GPUs and CPUs.2
Microsoft speech and AI human parity milestones
Began Microsoft's speech technology group in 1993 and led Microsoft's AI teams to human parity milestones in speech recognition, machine translation, natural language understanding, and computer vision, according to Zoom's leadership page.1
Timeline
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
Honors and recognition
Where they work
- Zoom 1 person in the wiki
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References
4 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026
- Zoom leadership team — Xuedong Huang, Chief Technology Officer
- An Introduction to Computational Networks and the Computational Network Toolkit (MSR-TR-2014-112)
- Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition (arXiv 1610.05256)
- Achieving Human Parity on Automatic Chinese to English News Translation (arXiv 1803.05567)