Speakers

Prof. Keith Ross

Dean of Computer Science, Data Science, and Engineering of NYU Shanghai, Professor of Computer Science, NYU Shanghai; Associated Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering

Keith Ross is the Dean of Computer Science, Data Science, and Engineering, a Professor of Computer Science at NYU Shanghai and an Associated Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, NYU. He also holds an affiliated appointment with the Department of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and with the Center for Data Science at NYU.

Prior to joining NYU Shanghai in 2013, Dean Ross was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania for 13 years, a professor at Eurecom Institute for 5 years, and the Department Head of the CSE Department at NYU from 2008 to 2013. He received a PhD in Computer and Control Engineering from The University of Michigan.

Dean Ross's current research interests are in reinforcement learning. He has also worked in Internet privacy, peer-to-peer networking, Internet measurement, stochastic modeling of computer networks, queuing theory, and Markov decision processes. At NYU Shanghai he has been teaching Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Introduction to Computer Programming.

He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He is also the recipient of several prestigious best paper awards, and his work has been featured in the mainstream press, including the New York Times, NPR, Bloomberg Television, Huffington Post, Fast Company, Ars Technia, and the New Scientist.

Dean Ross is co-author (with James F. Kurose) of the popular textbook Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet, published by Pearson (first edition in 2000, eighth edition 2020). It is the most popular textbook on computer networking, both nationally and internationally, and has been translated into fourteen languages. He is also the author of the research monograph Multiservice Loss Models for Broadband Communication Networks, published by Springer in 1995.

Prof. Yihong Gong

Xi'an Jiaotong University

Yihong Gong (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1987, 1989, and 1992, respectively. In 1992, he joined Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as an Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. From 1996 to 1998, he was a Project Scientist with the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Since 1999, he has been with the Silicon Valley Branch, NEC Labs America, as a Group Leader, the Department Head, and the Branch Manager. In 2012, he joined Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, as a Distinguished Professor. His research interests include image and video analysis, multimedia database systems, and machine learning

Prof. Jiangtao Cui

Executive Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University

Jiangtao Cui (Member, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, he was with the Data and Knowledge Engineering Group, The University of Queensland, Australia, where he is working on high-dimensional indexing for large scale image retrieval. He is currently the Execute Dean and a Distinguished Professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University. He has published more than 100 journals and conference papers, including VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, The VLDB Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. His research interests include database management and core techniques, temporal–spatial data management, blockchain data management, and computer vision. He is a Distinguished Member and a fellow of CCF. He is currently a Committee Member of CCF TCDB, CCF TCAPP, and CCF TCBC