Trista Chen∣陳佩君

Director, AI Research Center,
Microsoft TaiwanDevelopment Center

Trista Chen, an AI scientist and tech executive, is currently the Director, AI Research Center at Microsoft. Her research focuses on computer vision, multimodal foundation models, and agentic AI. he impactful technologiesTristahas developed at Microsoft are currently used by millions of users worldwide.Trista’s contributions extend beyond code and algorithms; her work has been published in over 30 top-tier journals and conference papers, and she holds or has filed 110 patents. Her research is internationally recognized, with notable achievements such as publishing in a Nature Portfolio journal, receiving the 2023 CVPR workshop best paper award, and winning the world championship in the USAID Intelligent Forecasting Competition, where her innovations advanced healthcare in the Ivory Coast.

Before joining Microsoft,Tristaheld leadership positions at Inventec, Intel, Nvidia, and two startups. As the Chief AI Officer at Inventec,Tristaspearheaded the development of one of Taiwan FDA’s first batch of novel AI Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), based on her original medical research. Additionally,Tristaled Inventec in creating the industry’s pioneering computer vision laptop defect detection system and logistics solution, leveraging the technology that won the USAID world championship. During her tenure at Intel,Tristafacilitated the development of OpenCV, the world’s most widely adopted computer vision software. At Nvidia,Tristaco-architected the company’s inaugural video processor.Trista holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as M.S. and B.S. degrees from National Tsing-Hua University.

技術長
微軟人工智慧研發中心, 微軟台灣研發中心

陳佩君現職台灣微軟人工智慧研發中心技術長。研究興趣包含電腦視覺、智慧醫療、混合實境、以人為本的人工智慧。陳佩君也曾參與過無數的新創與研究團隊，包括在英業達集團擔任人工智慧長，以及在Intel 開發出目前最為廣泛應用，下載次數超過1800 萬次的電腦視覺程式OpenCV；她也曾為Nvidia 開發出公司首個影像處理器。除了企業實務經驗，陳佩君雄厚的學術累積也不容小覷，她擁有CMU 博士學位，共同著作了超過30 篇學術論文，並且握有超過110項專利，也曾獲得美國國際開發總署數位國際競賽的世界冠軍。