Baidu Finds New Chief Technology Officer

Press Release

"Baidu.com, Inc, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced the promotion of Mr. Jerry Liu to Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Prior to the promotion, Mr. Liu had been the Vice President of Engineering since August2000."

"Mr. Liu has more than 15 years of experience in software engineering, R&D and management. He joined Baidu in January 2000 and in August 2000, he was appointed as the Vice President of Engineering responsible for supervising multiple teams of engineers and R&D projects and developing cutting edge technologies for search in Chinese.

Prior to joining Baidu, Mr. Liu was an associate professor in the department of computer science and technology at Peking University where he supervised numerous research projects funded by the Chinese National ScienceFoundation and the National Planning Committee. During his tenure, Mr. Liuand his team developed various technology products including the first Chinese language search engine."

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