About
Dr. Xing Xie is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. Since joining Microsoft Research Asia in July 2001, Dr. Xie has led research in data mining, social computing, and responsible artificial intelligence. His contributions have been widely recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the IEEE MDM 2023 Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGKDD 2022 Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGKDD China 2021 Test-of-Time Award, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020 10-Year Impact Award (Honorable Mention), and ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 10-Year Impact Award. Dr. Xie has been invited to deliver keynote speeches at several major conferences, such as DASFAA 2025, MDM 2019, ASONAM 2017, and W2GIS 2011. He currently serves on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Social Computing, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, and CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction. He has also served as Program Co-Chair for a number of top-tier conferences, including ACM UbiComp 2011, PCC 2012, IEEE UIC 2015, SMP 2017, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021 and 2022, IEEE MDM 2022, and PAKDD 2024. Dr. Xie is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, and China Computer Federation.
谢幸博士于2001年7月加入微软亚洲研究院，现任全球研究合伙人。他1996年毕业于中国科学技术大学少年班，并于2001年在中国科学技术大学获得博士学位，师从陈国良院士。目前，他领导的研究团队专注于数据挖掘、社会计算与负责任人工智能等领域，致力于推动前沿技术的发展与跨学科融合。谢博士在国际学术界具有广泛影响，曾获得一系列重要奖项，包括：2019年ACM SIGSPATIAL十年影响力论文奖、中国计算机学会“青竹奖”，2020年ACM SIGSPATIAL十年影响力论文荣誉奖，2021年ACM SIGKDD China时间检验论文奖，2022年ACM SIGKDD时间检验论文奖，2023年IEEE MDM时间检验论文奖与中国计算机学会自然科学一等奖，并于同年入选DeepTech“中国智能计算科技创新人物”。2025年，谢博士被授予“北京市劳动模范”荣誉称号。谢博士曾多次受邀在学术会议上担任大会主题报告讲者，包括DASFAA 2025、ChineseCSCW 2022、CCDM 2022、CCIR 2020、MDM 2019、HHME 2018、ASONAM 2017、Mobiquitous 2016、SocInfo 2015、W2GIS 2011等。他长期担任多个学术期刊的编委，包括ACM Transactions on Social Computing、ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology、CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction等。此外，他还曾担任多个学术会议的程序委员会共同主席，包括ACM UbiComp 2011、PCC 2012、IEEE UIC 2015、SMP 2017、ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021与2022、IEEE MDM 2022，以及PAKDD 2024等。他是ACM会士、IEEE会士和中国计算机学会会士。
[White paper] Societal AI: Research Challenges and Opportunities (opens in new tab), blog (opens in new tab), podcast (opens in new tab) (Mar. 2025)
[Research paper] General Scales Unlock AI Evaluation with Explanatory and Predictive Power (opens in new tab), blog (opens in new tab) (Mar. 2025)
[Open Call] Microsoft Research Asia StarTrack Scholars Program – Societal AI Theme (opens in new tab) (Deadline Passed)
[Survey] The Road to Artificial SuperIntelligence: A Comprehensive Survey of Superalignment (opens in new tab) (Dec. 2024)
[Workshop] 2024 MSR Asia TAB Workshop: Shaping the Future with Societal AI (opens in new tab) (Nov. 14, 2024)
[Join Us!] Dive into the Intersection of AI and Social Science with Microsoft Research Asia! (opens in new tab)
[Open Call] BRAID Fellowships – Challenge on alignment of Large Language Models (opens in new tab) (Deadline Passed)
[Open Call] Microsoft Research AI & Society Fellows (opens in new tab) – Copyright Protection for User Data in the Era of LLMs (Deadline Passed)
[Open Call] Accelerate Foundation Models Research (opens in new tab) (Deadline Passed)
[Summer School] Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, Beijing, China (opens in new tab) (Jul. 2024)
[Book] Recommender Systems: Frontiers and Practices (opens in new tab) (Mar. 2024)
[Vision paper] Evaluating General-Purpose AI with Psychometrics (opens in new tab), podcast (opens in new tab) (Oct. 2023)
[Vision paper] Unpacking the Ethical Value Alignment in Big Models (opens in new tab) (Oct. 2023)
[Survey] From Instructions to Intrinsic Human Values – A Survey of Alignment Goals for Big Models (opens in new tab) (Aug. 2023)
[Survey] A Survey on Evaluation of Large Language Models (opens in new tab) (Jul. 2023)
[Workshop] The Workshop on AI’s impact on Society and Advancements in Technology (opens in new tab) (May 16, 2023)
[Workshop] The Workshop on Understanding and Evaluating Big Models for Human Intelligence and Learning (opens in new tab) (Apr. 11, 2023)
[Workshop] The Workshop on Legal and Ethical Governance Challenges Faced by Big Models (opens in new tab) (Feb. 28, 2023)
[Workshop] Microsoft Research Summit Workshop on Responsible AI: An Interdisciplinary Approach (opens in new tab) (Oct. 24, 2022, PPT and recordings are shared on this page)
[Data] PENS: PErsonalized News headlineS (opens in new tab) (Dataset for personalized news headline generation research, ACL 2021 paper (opens in new tab))
[Workshop] The 1st International Workshop on News Recommendation and Intelligence (opens in new tab) (PPT and recordings are shared here (opens in new tab))
[Data] MIND News Recommendation Leaderboard (opens in new tab) (ACL 2020 paper (opens in new tab), Baselines (opens in new tab))
[Code] Microsoft Recommenders (opens in new tab)
[Talk] IEEE MDM 2019 Keynote Speech “Future of Personalized Recommendation Systems (opens in new tab)” (Jun. 2019)
[Vision Article] Personalized Recommendation Systems: Five Hot Research Topics You Must Know (opens in new tab) (Nov. 2018)
[Video] Our research on personality inference/matching in TV program “Only You (opens in new tab)” (in Chinese, May 2017)
[Book] Mobile Data Mining (opens in new tab) (in Chinese, Apr. 2017)
[Talk] Zaojiu talk “Can I Build Another Me (opens in new tab)” (in Chinese, Feb. 2017)