Dr. Yong Rui is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group. He is responsible for overseeing Lenovo’s corporate technical strategy, research and development directions, and Lenovo Research organization, which covers intelligent devices, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, 5G and smart lifestyle-related technologies.
Before joining Lenovo, Dr. Rui worked for Microsoft for 18 years. His roles included Senior Director and Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) (2012-2016), GM of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D (ARD) Group (2010-2012), Director of Microsoft Education Product in China (2008-2010), Director of Strategy (2006-2008), and Researcher and Senior Researcher of the Multimedia Collaboration group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA (1999-2006).
A Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR and SPIE, Dr. Rui is recognized as a leading expert in his fields of research. He is a recipient of many awards, including 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 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 65 US and international issued patents. He has published 4 books, 12 book chapters, and 260 referred journal and conference papers. With over 21,000 citations, and an h-Index of 64, 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 was 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 was an Executive Member of ACM SIGMM, and the founding Chair of its China Chapter.
Dr. Rui 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 Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 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).