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Yong Rui (Chinese: 芮勇) is the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group. He is in charge of Lenovo’s technical strategy, research and development directions, and Lenovo Research, one of Lenovo’s most important innovation engines.
Biography
Rui received his Bachelor’s Degree from Southeast University, Master’s Degree from Tsinghua University, and PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Career
Before taking office as Lenovo CTO and SVP in November 2016, Rui had worked at Microsoft for 18 years. He started out as Researcher and Senior Researcher of the Multimedia Collaboration group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA (1999-2006). He then worked as Director of Strategy (2006-2008), Director of Microsoft Education Product in China (2008-2010), GM of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D (ARD) Group (2010-2012) and Senior Director and Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) (2012-2016).
Research
Rui's areas of research include multimedia analysis, understanding, and retrieval, and artificial intelligence. He has made significant contributions to Microsoft intelligent cloud platform Project Oxford, Microsoft intelligent assistants Cortana and Xiaolce, Microsoft Bing and Microsoft Office.
Awards & Publications
Rui is a Fellow of IEEE, IAPR and SPIE, and a Distinguished Scientist of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2016, Rui received the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award“for pioneering contributions to multimedia analysis and retrieval". Also, Rui won the 2017 the ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award, 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Awardand, in 2010, the Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award from the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.
Rui holds 62 US and international issued patents and is a prolific author. He has published 4 books, 12 book chapters, and 260 referred journal and conference papers.
Professional Activities
Rui serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine, an Associate Editor of ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications (TOMM), and is a founding editor of the International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR).
In addition, Rui was an Executive Member of ACM SIGMM and the founding Chair of its China Chapter.
Rui was also a member of review panels for the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Australian Research Council, and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.
Rui is a Guest Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Zhejiang University, and Southeast University.