Sun Jian
Sun Jian was a computer scientist specializing in computer vision and deep learning. He served as Chief Scientist and Managing Director of Research at Megvii Technology (Face++) from 2016, having previously spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research Asia. He was best known for his co-authorship of the ResNet paper introducing deep residual learning, and he led the development of Megvii's Brain++ platform and ShuffleNet. He passed away in June 2021 at the age of 45.
“"Sun Jian's help to me was really enormous. His working style was extremely grounded, extremely focused on experiments, and especially on experimental phenomena that were very inconsistent with your expectations — those might be where the most significant discoveries lie."”
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