WALLDORF, Germany, Sept. 1,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today
announced the appointment of Walter
Sun as Global Head of Artificial Intelligence. Sun joins SAP
on September 1 from his current role
as vice president of Copilot Applied Artificial Intelligence for
business applications at Microsoft. With a proven track record of
driving technological innovation and strategic business leadership,
Sun will play a pivotal role in strengthening SAP's pioneering
vision of relevant, reliable and responsible AI built for
business.
"We are thrilled to welcome Walter
Sun, a leader in enterprise AI with a long history of
developing and deploying cutting-edge technology to solve key
business problems, to SAP," said Thomas
Saueressig, Member of the Executive Board of SAP SE for SAP
Product Engineering. "As SAP builds on its pole position in
Business AI, Walter Sun is the
perfect person to ensure we continue innovating to help our
customers solve their most pressing problems."
Sun joined Microsoft in 2005 and has held progressively senior
scientific and product development positions, culminating in his
current role leading an interdisciplinary team developing
business-ready AI and machine learning capabilities. In addition,
he founded Bing Predicts, which leveraged anonymized and aggregated
data for predictive analytics. He also delivered many AI features
across Microsoft's portfolio, including applications such as Bing
Search, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft
Power Platform. Previously, Sun worked at BlackRock Financial
Management as a quantitative portfolio analyst and at Apple Inc. as
a senior software engineer and scientist.
His applied research includes work in stochastic processes,
signal processing, machine learning and deep learning, operations
research and large language models. He has been an adjunct
professor at Seattle University and an
affiliate faculty member at the University of
Washington. He is currently an advisory board member at
Georgia Tech.
Sun obtained his PhD in statistical signal and image processing
and computer vision with applications in medical imaging from the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
"I'm thrilled to be joining SAP at a time when the company that
invented enterprise software is once again on the threshold of
redefining how business runs," Sun said. "AI has never been more
important. I believe at SAP, we have a unique opportunity to
fundamentally change the way in which companies operate, using AI
on a much larger scale in business practices than ever before. We
have the breadth of applications, customers, scenarios and people
that allow us to best leverage the power of generative AI across
all industries."
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