Microsoft names Dr. Zhang Qi chair of its Asia-Pacific R&D Group as Dr. Wang Yongdong retires
智东西 · wechat · 2026-09-28
Microsoft announced that Dr. Zhang Qi, Corporate VP and head of the Microsoft Asia Internet Engineering Institute, becomes Chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, succeeding Dr. Wang Yongdong, who is retiring.
Zhang joined Microsoft in 2002 and has led search ads, big data, knowledge graph, and commercial AI teams across Microsoft 365, Copilot, Azure AI, and Bing; his search ads team reportedly contributed over $10 billion in revenue to Bing Ads over nine years. Wang led the Asia Internet Engineering Institute since 2011 and chaired the R&D group since 2022.
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