Portrait de Justin Ding

Justin Ding

Principal Researcher

À propos

Data analysis is crucial for uncovering insights and making informed decisions in both business and everyday life. In order to empower users and organizations with techniques to automatically discover insights in their data, I have been conducting research on insights at the Data, Knowledge, and Intelligence (opens in new tab) (a.k.a., DKI) group of Microsoft Research Asia (now DKI at E+D).

My research focuses on two important topics. One is how to formulate the insight concept into computable data entity, which is the fundamental problem of insight discovery. The other topic is about interpretability and causality which are also essential to make insights explainable and reliable.  The insight-related research has also resulted in a series of tech-transfers as AI for analysis features in Microsoft products, including Power BI Quick Insights (opens in new tab), Excel Analyze Data (opens in new tab), and Forms Insights (opens in new tab).

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Insights

Causality

XAI

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