Here is an article from Business Weekly about the four Taiwanese senior research manager in Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) -- WeiYing Ma , Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Feng-Hsiung Hsu, and Frank Soong.

Since the article is in Chinese I'll try to summarize it here:

WeiYing Ma is the one man that leads the Web Search and Data Mining Group. Out of Bill G's 6 hours for for listening to technological update from all the Microsoft research centers per year, WeiYing Ma always take away 20 minutes of his time. In the Bill G Review this May, WeiYing Ma made Bill jump out of his chair and went to hold his hand and said, "It's super super exciting!" Right, WeiYing Ma is coming up with the Microsoft search technology that will beat Google in the future.

Hsiao-Wuen Hong, is the Assistant Managing Director of MSRA. The Microsoft Speach technology was made out of his hands.

Feng-Hsiung Hsu was the creator of DeepBlue. He is currently leading the Platforms and Devices Center at MSRA. One of the research focus of Microsoft now is the Embedded Systems, wchich is under his care.

Frank Soong was the man who created the mobile communication standards that is being used globally now. He is currently leading the Speech Technology Group of MSRA.