Kuansan Wang is managing director of Microsoft Research (MSR) Outreach, responsible for Microsoft Academic Services (MAS). He joined MSR speech research team in 1998 where he participated in research and then product efforts while serving as a contributing editor to W3C, ECMA and ISO standards. He returned to MSR in 2007 to conduct research on machine cognition for Bing, with MAS project, commissioned in 2014, an offshoot of this endeavor. Kuansan received his BS from National Taiwan University and MS, PhD from University of Maryland, College Park, all in Electrical Engineering.
