Matt Scott is co-founder and CTO of Malong Technologies, Co. Ltd., an award-winning artificial intelligence startup in China, inventing deep learning technology to help people and machines make visual decisions. Matt previously worked at Microsoft for 10 years, where he was a top performing member of Microsoft Research as Senior Development Lead in the Innovation Engineering Group. He helped initiate and for five plus years led the Wall Street Journal Innovation award-winning Microsoft Research “Engkoo” project that produced two entirely new, high traffic Microsoft products in China: Bing Pinyin IME in 2013 and Bing Dictionary in 2010. He has received 18 Research Technology Transfer awards for shipping machine learning, computer vision and natural language research technologies in new releases of Windows, Office and Bing. Matt has published more than 40 patents and 13 scientific papers in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction, in top international conferences, journals and books. Matt is a member of the IEEE. Matt has been invited to attend 2017 GMIC as AI session keynote speaker, and he also achieved Yicai 20 Brilliant Foreign Entrepreneurs in China Award, Persons of the Year—— China Entrepreneurs Award 2017, and Yantian Talent Award after he successfully found Malong as an outstanding AI company. In 2014, he and his partner Dr.Huang co-founded Malong Technologies, Co. Ltd., which provides artificial intelligence vision solutions to enterprise. Malong makes it easy for any businesses to integrate world-class image recognition and retrieval into their products via a cloud platform called ProductAI (productai.com). Malong graduated with honors from Microsoft Ventures Startup Accelerator in 2015 and raised over $10 million in VC funding (Series A round, Angel)