Organizers
Dr. Bo Long
Dr. Bo Long
Dr. Bo Long leads LinkedIn’s AI Foundations team. He also worked at Particle Media, Yahoo! Labs, IBM Watson and Google Lab. He has 15 years of experience in data mining and machine learning with applications to web search, recommendation, and social network analysis. He holds dozens of innovations and has published peer-reviewed papers in top conferences and journals including ICML, KDD, ICDM, AAAI, SDM, CIKM, and KAIS. He has served as reviewers, workshops co-organizers, conference organizer committee members, and area chairs for multiple conferences, including KDD, NIPS, SIGIR, ICML, SDM, CIKM, JSM etc.
Prof. Jieping Ye
Prof. Jieping Ye
Prof. Jieping Ye is Head of Didi AI Labs, a VP of Didi Chuxing and a Didi Fellow. He is also a professor of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests include big data, machine learning, and data mining with applications in transportation and biomedicine. He has served as a Senior Program Committee/Area Chair/Program Committee Vice Chair of many conferences including NIPS, ICML, KDD, IJCAI, ICDM, and SDM. He serves as an Associate Editor of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. He won the NSF CAREER Award in 2010. His papers have been selected for the outstanding student paper at ICML in 2004, the KDD best research paper runner up in 2013, and the KDD best student paper award in 2014
Dr. Zang Li
Dr. Zang Li
Dr. Zang Li is Distinguished Engineer at Didi Chuxing. He currently leads the Data Mining group and the NLP-Graph group. He received his Ph.D. in information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University. He has worked at Cisco, Linkedin and Zenefits. Dr. Li’s main research interest includes recommendation systems, big data, machine learning, and natural language processing. He has co-authored over 30+ academic papers on data mining and also served as a reviewer for several conferences and journals. He joined DiDi in 2015, working on data mining, big data platforms, natural language processing, knowledge graph, and growth strategies.
Dr. Huiji Gao
Dr. Huiji Gao
Dr. Huiji Gao leads the AI Algorithms Foundation team at LinkedIn. He has broad interests in machine learning/AI and its applications, including search/recommender systems, computational advertising, and NLP. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and B.S./M.S. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has filed over 10 U.S. patents and published 40+ publications in top journals and conferences including KDD, AAAI, WWW, ICDM, DMKD, CIKM, WSDM etc.
Sandeep Jha
Sandeep Jha
Sandeep Jha is a Staff Technical Program Manager in the Artificial Intelligence group at LinkedIn, where he leads programs that empowers LinkedIn’s Search and Recommendation systems. Before LinkedIn, he was a Sr. Technical Program Manager in Search Science and AI team at Amazon, where he worked on improving the search result in the first page of Amazon worldwide. Before that, he worked at Facebook, where he led initiatives to enhance ad quality and launch of multiple commerce products such as Facebook Marketplace and Instagram Shopping.