Dr. Tao Qin is a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science, where he leads the Asia team. His recent work focuses on AI for scientific discovery, encompassing areas such as science foundation models, drug discovery, materials design, and biology research.In the past, Dr. Qin has made significant contributions to various fields, including deep learning (with applications in machine translation, healthcare, speech synthesis and recognition, music understanding and composition), reinforcement learning (with applications in games and real-world problems), game theory and multi-agent systems (with applications in cloud computing, online and mobile advertising), and information retrieval and computational advertising.Under his leadership, his team has achieved remarkable milestones, such as helping Microsoft reach human parity in Chinese-English machine translation in 2018, securing first place in eight translation tasks at WMT 2019, and developing the world-class Mahjong AI, Suphx, which achieved 10 DAN on the Tenhou platform in mid-2019. Additionally, his team designed FastSpeech, the backbone of the neural TTS models in Azure, which supports hundreds of languages and voices.