Yong Rui

Corp. CTO and SVP, Fellow of ACM/AAAS/IEEE/IAPR/SPIE, MAE, FCAE at Lenovo

United States

About Yong Rui

Yong Rui is Corp. CTO and SVP, Fellow of ACM/AAAS/IEEE/IAPR/SPIE, MAE, FCAE at Lenovo. Location: United States.

Dr. Yong Rui is the Corporate CTO and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group. He is a member of the Lenovo Executive Committee (Lenovo's decision making body). He directs Lenovo’s technical strategies and R&D directions. Additionally, Dr. Rui leads the Lenovo Research organization that investigates intelligent devices, artificial intelligence, 5G, cloud and edge computing, and smart vertical solutions. 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. Dr. Rui has extensive R&D leadership experience and has delivered numerous technologies and products. At Lenovo, Dr. Rui is one of the key drivers of the 3S (Smart IoT, Smart Infrastructure and Smart Verticals) strategy, which is transforming Lenovo into a leader and enabler of the intelligence era. At Microsoft, Dr. Rui and his team have developed technologies used by millions of users around the world. A Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR and SPIE, and a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and Canadian Academy of Engineering, Dr. Rui is world-renowned technologist. He holds 70 patents, and is the recipient of the prestigious 2018 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award and 2016 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award. Dr. Rui is also a great mentor. Several people on his group are now VPs, and GMs in leading IT companies. Specialties: Senior Leadership Building and Leading Large Team and Business Business and R&D management AI, Multimedia Computing, Web Search, smart vertical solutions

Skills

  • Strategic Vision
  • Executive Management
  • Innovation Management

Additional experience

  • Deputy Managing Director

    Microsoft

    June 2015 – October 2016

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • MS, Tsinghua University