Shen Dou

Shen Dou, born in October 1979 in Cixian, Handan, Hebei, holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from North China Electric Power University, a master's degree from Tsinghua University and a PhD in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He worked at Microsoft's AdCenter laboratory in Seattle and founded BuzzLabs (acquired by CityGrid Media in 2011) before joining Baidu in 2012, where he led web search, Baidu Finance and the mobile ecosystem business group. He became an executive vice president of Baidu Group in May 2019 and has headed the AI Cloud Business Group (ACG) since May 2022. He holds more than 10 patents and has published over 40 papers, and serves as vice chairman of ACM SIGKDD China and dean of the AI School of North China Electric Power University.