Portrait of Lei Cui

Lei Cui

Principal Research Manager

Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model

Kosmos-2.5: A Multimodal Literate Model

We present Kosmos-2.5, a multimodal literate model for machine reading of text-intensive images. Pre-trained on large-scale text-intensive images, Kosmos-2.5 excels in two distinct yet cooperative transcription tasks: (1)…

About

Dr. Lei CUI is a Principal Research Manager in Natural Language Computing (NLC) group at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. Lei joined MSR Asia in Jan 2015 after he received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology. Lei’s research interests include Foundation Models and Multimodal AI.

Lei has been working in MSR Asia for 17 years starting from his internship in 2007. His work has contributed to several important products and research projects. He published 50+ research papers in top conferences in AI and NLP areas. Besides, he also held 20+ U.S. patents in AI and NLP areas.

Intern students I mentored:

  • Shan YANG (Master student from Tsinghua University)
  • Tao GE (Ph.D. student from Peking University)
  • Yukun ZHAO (Master student from Shandong University)
  • Chaoqun DUAN (Ph.D. student from Harbin Institute of Technology)
  • Qingfu ZHU (Ph.D. student from Harbin Institute of Technology)
  • Xiang DENG (Under-graduate student from University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Hangbo BAO (Ph.D. student from Harbin Institute of Technology)
  • Shuming MA (Master student from Peking University)
  • Minghao LI (Joint Ph.D. student from Beihang University)
  • Lin CHEN (Under-graduate student from Beihang University)
  • Wei LIU (Master student from Beihang University)
  • Tengchao LV (Master student from Peking University)
  • Shengjie LUO (Under-graduate student from Beihang University)
  • Yiheng XU (Under-graduate student from Harbin Institute of Technology)
  • Yang XU (Ph.D. student from Harbin Institute of Technology)
  • Zilong WANG (Ph.D. student from University of California, San Diego)
  • Han WANG (Master student from New York University)
  • Yupan HUANG (Joint Ph.D. studnet from Sun Yat-sen University)
  • Junlong LI (Under-graduate student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  • Jingye CHEN (Ph.D. student from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
  • Yilin JIA (Under-graduate student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University of Michigan)
  • Yuzhong ZHAO (Ph.D. student from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)