StepFunCo-founder and CEO
Jul 2023 — Present
Daxin Jiang is co-founder and CEO of StepFun. Before founding the company in 2023, he spent more than sixteen years at Microsoft, serving as Vice President, Partner Chief Scientist, development manager, and researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. His teams built search and natural-language technologies for Bing and other Microsoft products. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo.
Daxin Jiang is co-founder and CEO of StepFun. Before founding the company in 2023, he spent more than sixteen years at Microsoft, serving as Vice President, Partner Chief Scientist, development manager, and researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. His teams built search and natural-language technologies for Bing and other Microsoft products. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo.
Career
MicrosoftVice President
Mar 2023 — Jul 2023
MicrosoftPartner Chief Scientist
Sep 2017 — Feb 2023
MicrosoftPrincipal Development Manager
Mar 2013 — Aug 2017
MicrosoftSenior Development Manager
Oct 2011 — Mar 2013
Microsoft Research AsiaResearcher; later Lead Researcher
Mar 2007 — Oct 2011
Research in data mining, machine learning, information retrieval, and search.
Nanyang Technological UniversityAssistant Professor
Nov 2005 — Dec 2006