Prof. Helen Meng was a recipient of a Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award.  On the occasion of Microsoft Research turning 25, the Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator award highlights 32 academics who have worked with Microsoft Research over these 25 years.  These contributions have had an outstanding impact on the direction, visibility and value of Microsoft's research and products.

Prof. Helen Meng is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received all her degrees from MIT and joined CUHK in 1998. She is the Founding Director of the Microsoft-CUHK Joint Laboratory for Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies in 2005, which has been recognized as a Ministry of Education of China (MoE) Key Laboratory since 2008. In 2006, she founded the Tsinghua-CUHK Joint Research Centre for Media Sciences, Technologies and Systems and has served as its Director. In 2013, she helped establish the CUHK Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Center and serves as its Founding Director.

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