Yong Rui serves as Senior Director, Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D (ARD) Group, in charge of China Innovation. In this capacity, he and his team passionately drive local innovation and diligently make global impact in online, Windows, healthcare, digital entertainment and mobile spaces.

An IEEE Fellow, an SPIE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist, Rui is recognized as a pioneer and a world-class expert in Web multimedia search. He holds 40+ US and international patents. He has published 16 books and book chapters, and 100+ referred journal and conference papers. Rui’s publications are among the most cited -- his top 10 papers have been cited 5,000 times.

From 2008 to 2010, Rui was Director of Microsoft Education R&D Group in China. The team developed Linked Note Taking – one of the top features for Office OneNote 2010 and Interactive Classroom – a key enabler for effective learning. From 2006 to 2008, Rui was Director of Strategy, working with ARD Chairman to envision and establish the 5 key R&D pillars in mobile, web, servers and tools, digital entertainment and emerging market.

Rui joined Microsoft in 1999, after 8 years of graduate school. Before Rui came to China in 2006, he was leading the Multimedia Collaboration group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA. He and his team contributed several key technologies to Microsoft MovieMaker, Live Meeting, Office Communicator, and Media Server. He is one of the founding members of Microsoft Office RoundTable, an innovative distribute meeting system released in 2007.

Rui also serves for academia, industry, government and international standards. He is a Guest Professor of Peking University, Zhejiang University and Southeast University. Rui served on the editorial boards for all the first-class multimedia journals/transactions including ACM TOMCCAP and IEEE TMM. He also served on the review panels for both the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Chinese National Science Foundation (CNSF). He is a member of review committee of China’s National 1000-People Talent Program, the highest oversea talent attraction program.

Dr. Rui received his BS from Southeast University, his MS from Tsinghua University, and his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He also holds a Microsoft Leadership Training Certificate from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania.

芮勇博士现为微软亚洲工程院副院长及微软亚太研发集团中国创新孵化部高级总监，负责集团在华产品技术的创新及孵化。 在此之前, 在美国微软总部工作7年后，芮勇于2006年初回到中国。先后担任微软亚太研发集团首任战略总监 (2006-2008), 负责制定和执行集团的整体研发战略; 和研发总监 (2008-2010)，全面负责公司第一款教育产品在华的研发。在回国之前， 芮勇博士是微软总部研究院主任研究员，全面负责研究院多媒体协同系统中的科研，并成功将多项科研成果转移到微软主流产品。

芮勇是国际电气电子工程学会会士 (IEEE Fellow) 和国际计算机协会杰出科学家 (ACM Distinguished Scientist)。 获得及申报美国及国际技术专利四十余项。芮博士是东南大学, 北京大学和浙江大学的客座教授，是国家千人计划评委, 欧美同学会第五届理事会理事, 也是清华企业家及高管协会 (TEEC) 会员。

芮博士是多媒体搜索 Multimedia Analysis and Search 的世界级专家。担任国际多媒体权威学刊 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications的副主编。芮博士还是国际计算机协会多媒体专委会中国区主席，2009年ACM多媒体大会联合总主席， 2009年IEEE ICME多媒体大会联合程序委员会主席, 以及2006年环太平洋多媒体大会的程序委员会主席。

芮勇在产品开发上有和基础科研上一样重要的成就。芮博士在1999年开发了微软MovieMaker V1.0中的视频边界检测技术。 从2000到2006年芮博士和他的团队向Office Live Meeting, Office Communicator和Windows Media Server 转移了多项关键技术。 芮博士是微软Office RoundTable产品的创始人之一，该产品于2007年成功发布。回到中国之后， 芮博士和他的团队又开发出了包括Office OneNote 2010链接笔记等多项微软第一批的教育产品。 从2010至今芮博士和他的团队又在互联网，移动设备及医疗系统孵化开发出了多项新产品。

芮博士拥有东南大学学士，清华大学硕士, 美国伊利诺伊大学博士学位，及美国宾州大学沃顿商学院 Microsoft Leadership Training 证书。