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{{Short description|CTO of Lenovo}}
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| caption           = Yong Rui, SVP & CTO of Lenovo
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| fields            = [[Artificial intelligence]]<br>Multimedia analysis
| workplaces        = [[Lenovo]]<br>Microsoft Research Asia
| alma_mater        = [[Southeast University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br />[[Tsinghua University]] ([[Mastère spécialisé|MS]])<br />[[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] ([[PhD]])
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| known_for         = SVP & CTO of [[:Lenovo]]
| awards            = 2018 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award <ref>{{Cite web|title=SIGMM Technical Achievement Award|url=http://www.sigmm.org/Awards/award_taa}}</ref><br>
2017 IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award <ref>{{Cite web|title=Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award|url=http://www.ieeesmc.org/about-smcs/awards/andrew-p-sage-best-transactions-paper}}</ref><br>
2017 [[Association for Computing Machinery]] TOMM Nicolas Georganas Best Paper Award<br>
2016 [[IEEE Computer Society]] Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award <ref>{{Cite web|title=Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award|date=9 April 2018 |url=https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/technical-achievement}}</ref> <br>2016 [[IEEE Signal Processing Society]] Best Paper Award<br>2010 [[Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation]] Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award<br>Foreign Member of Academia Europaea <br>Fellow of ACM <br>Fellow of IEEE <br>Fellow of IAPR <br>Fellow of SPIE
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'''Yong Rui''' is the CTO of Lenovo Group, in charge of Lenovo's technical strategy, research and development directions, and Lenovo Research, one of Lenovo's most important innovation engines.<ref>[http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2017-04/18/content_28979660.htm R&D Spree to Find New Growth Engine.China Daily]. 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2017-08-11.</ref><ref name=":0">[http://research.lenovo.com/webapp/view_English/CTO.html?id=515 Yong Rui]. Lenovo Research website.  Retrieved 2017-08-11.</ref>
== Education ==
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).<ref>[https://www.computer.org/web/pressroom/rui-tech-achievement Dr. Yong Rui Named Recipient of IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award. IEEE Computer Society. 2016-02-22. Retrieved 2017-08-11.]</ref>
== 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, US (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).<ref name=":0" />
== Research ==
Rui's areas of research include multimedia analysis, understanding, and retrieval, and [[artificial intelligence]].
He has shipped numerous technologies and products at both [[Lenovo]] and [[Microsoft]], including Lenovo LiCO, Lenovo ThinkCloud, Lenovo MOLI, Lenovo daystAR, [[Bing (search engine)|Microsoft Bing]] Search (image search, video search and entity search), Microsoft XiaoIce, Microsoft Satori (entity graph), [[Microsoft Office]] (RoundTable, OneNote and Sway), Microsoft [[OneDrive]] (photo tagging), [[Microsoft HoloLens|Microsoft Hololens]] (3D reconstruction), and Microsoft Cognitive Services on Azure (face, image and video analysis).<ref name=":0" />
== Awards & Publications ==
Rui is a Fellow of the [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]], [[IEEE]], [[IAPR]], [[SPIE]],<ref>[https://mspoweruser.com/lenovo-hires-microsoft-research-asias-deputy-managing-director-as-its-chief-technology-officer Lenovo Hires Microsoft Research Asia’s Deputy Managing Director As Its Chief Technology Officer]. Mspoweruser. /</ref><ref>{{citation|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2017/december/fellows-2017|title=ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|date=December 11, 2017|access-date=2017-11-13}}</ref> a foreign member of [[Academia Europaea]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Academy of Europe: Rui Yong|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Rui_Yong|website=www.ae-info.org|access-date=2020-05-12}}</ref> and an International Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fifty-two new Fellows elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering|url=https://cae-acg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/CAENewsRelease_NewFellows2020English.pdf}}</ref>
Rui won the 2018 ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications and the 2017 ACM TOMM Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award.<ref>[http://tomm.acm.org/honors-awards.cfm Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award]. ACM</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sigmm.org/news/sigmm_technical_award_2018|title=ACM SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications {{!}} ACM SIGMM - the Special Interest Group on Multimedia|website=www.sigmm.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-20}}</ref>
In 2016, Rui received the [[IEEE Computer Society]] Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award "for pioneering contributions to multimedia analysis and retrieval"<ref>[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/yong-rui-wins-ieee-2016-technical-achievement-award-honoring-multimedia-research-contributions-2/. Yong Rui Wins IEEE Computer Society 2016 Technical Achievement Award. Microsoft.]</ref> and the [[IEEE Signal Processing Society]] Best Paper Award.<ref>[https://signalprocessingsociety.org/get-involved/award-recipients Signal  Processing Society Awardees] IEEE Signal Processing Society.</ref>
In 2010, he was honored with the Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award from the [[Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation]].<ref>[https://beckman.illinois.edu/news/2010/06/huangcitedpaper Huang Wins Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award].Beckman Institute.</ref>
Rui holds 67 [[United States|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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lenovo Research|url=http://research.lenovo.com/webapp/view_English/home.html|website=research.lenovo.com|access-date=2020-05-12}}</ref>
== 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]].
==See also==
* [[Zhang Hongjiang]]
* [[Qiang Yang]]
* [[Hui Xiong]]
* [[Harry Shum]]
* [[Hsiao-Wuen Hon]]
* [[Ya-Qin Zhang]]
* [[Xing Xie]]
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