Dr. Yong Rui is the Chief Technology Officer, Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group and Member of the Lenovo Executive Committee (LEC), Lenovo's highest-level decision-making body. He directs Lenovo’s corporate technical strategy, research and development directions. Additionally, Dr. Rui leads the Lenovo Research organization that investigates AI, intelligent devices, cloud/edge, 5G, healthcare, blockchain, recommendation engine and smart education.
Prior to joining Lenovo, Dr. Rui spent 18 years with Microsoft where he held various leadership roles in R&D strategy, basic research, technology incubation and product development, and most recently served as Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia.
A Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, SPIE, CCF and CAAI, and a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, Dr. Rui is recognized as a leading expert in AI and multimedia analysis. He is a recipient of many awards, including the 2018 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, the 2017 IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, the 2017 ACM TOMM Nicolas Georganas Best Paper Award, the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award and the 2010 Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award from Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. He holds 67 US and international issued patents, has published 4 books, 12 book chapters, and 260 refereed journal and conference papers. With over 23,000 citations, and an h-Index of 71, his publications are among the most referenced.
Dr. Rui is an Associate Editor of ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications (TOMM), and a founding Editor of International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine (2014-2017), an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (2004-2008), IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies (2006-2010), ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (2004-2006), International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (2004-2006) , and IEEE Access. He also serves on the Advisory Board of IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering.
Involved in many facets of the field, Dr. Rui is a member of numerous organizing and program committees for conferences including ACM Multimedia, ACM ICMR, IEEE ICME, SPIE ITCom, and ICPR. He is General Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia in 2009 and 2014, ACM ICMR in 2006 and 2012, and ICIMCS in 2010, and Program Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia in 2006, Pacific Rim Multimedia (PCM) in 2006, and IEEE ICME in 2009. He is on the Steering Committees of ACM Multimedia, ACM ICMR, IEEE ICME and PCM. He is an Executive Member of ACM SIGMM, and the founding Chair of its China Chapter.
Dr. Rui has served as 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. He is a Guest Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, Peking University, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Zhejiang University, and Southeast University.
Dr. Rui received his BS from Southeast University, his MS from Tsinghua University, and his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).