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Jianfeng GaoTechnical Fellow & CVP · Microsoft ResearchResearcher↗FW
Researcher · Executive
Furu Wei
Microsoft ResearchDistinguished Scientist and Vice President
Wei leads foundation-model research at Microsoft Research, with work spanning BEiT, multilingual models, and the push toward general-purpose foundation models.
Career & education
Current role
Distinguished Scientist and Vice President
Previously
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations91,113As of Aug 8, '26
citations+2,601Since last snapshot, Jul 1, '26
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