Yong Rui#
| Membership Number: | 5104 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 - present Corporate CTO and Senior Vice President, Lenovo Group
- 2016 - present Head of Lenovo Research
- 2015 - 2016 Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
- 2012 - 2015 Principal Researcher and Senior Director, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
- 2010 - 2012 Senior Director and General Manager, Advanced Technology Center, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group
- 2008 - 2010 Director, Advanced Technology Center, Microsoft China R&D Group
- 2006 - 2008 Director, R&D Strategy, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D (ARD) Group
- 2003 - 2006 Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
- 1999 - 2003 Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Multimedia analysis, understanding and retrieval
- Data mining
- Machine learning
- Computer vision
Honours and Awards
- 2018 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award
- 2017 ACM Fellow for contributions to image, video and multimedia analysis, understanding and retrieval
- 2017 Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award, IEEE SMC Society (Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society)
- 2017 ACM TOMM Nicolas Georganas Best Paper Award
- 2017 Industrial Distinguished Leaders, APSIPA
- 2017 AI HERO Award, Netease
- 2016 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award
- 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
- 2015 IEEE Trans. Multimedia Best Paper Award
- 2015 IEEE CASS Distinguished Speaker
- 2014 ACM Distinguished Speaker
- 2012 IAPR Fellow for contribution to visual pattern analysis, recognition and retrieval
- 2010 SPIE Fellow for achievements in image processing, analysis and understanding
- 2010 IEEE Fellow for contributions to image and video analysis, indexing and retrieval
- 2010 Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
