What is the latest news on Lei Zhang, and how is he related to Yale University?”
Lei Zhang is a lead researcher in the Web Search & Mining Group at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing, and an adjunct professor of Tianjin University. He currently directs a team pursuing new research directions on social media search. Team projects include user-created content analysis, structured website analysis, web-scale image annotation, travel search, and query understanding. Results are targeted toward new advanced services in the delivery of intelligence and insight to Web users. Lei joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2001 and worked with the Media Computing Group on key projects such as image classification, red-eye detection, face detection and annotation. He developed a highly efficient and robust face-detection algorithm that uses a large-scale distributed system for machine learning. The face-detection technology was successfully transferred to many Microsoft products, including Vista, Media Center, and Digital Image Suite. Three years ago, he moved to his current post in
Lei Zhang is a suspect in the murder of Annie Le, a graduate student from Yale. While police have not released anything specific on the murder, they have said that Le’s body was found in the wall of the lab where she worked, indicating someone who worked at the lab as the main suspect. ABC and CBS news have both reported that inside sources told them that a suspect is in custody. The suspect may be a student at another university. Based on this new evidence, I predict that the murderer is an Asian male who was a student at a community college and worked at Yale as a lab technician or something like that.
