Yong Rui is a Senior Director at Microsoft Research Asia. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Senior Director of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D (ARD) Group where he was in charge of China Innovation. From 2008 to 2010, he was the Director responsible for Microsoft Education Product in China. From 2006 to 2008, he was ARD’s first Director of R&D Strategy, and from 1999 to 2006, he was leading the Multimedia Collaboration group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA.

A Fellow of IEEE, IAPR and SPIE, and a Distinguished Scientist of ACM, Rui is recognized as a leading expert in Web multimedia search. He holds 50 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 5 papers have been cited 5,000+ times.

Dr. Rui is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia Magazine, an Associate Editor of ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications (TOMCCAP) and a founding editor of International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (2004-2008), IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies (2006-2010), ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (2004-2006), and International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (2004-2006). He also serves on the Advisory Board of IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering. Dr. Rui is on Organizing Committees and Program Committees of numerous conferences including ACM Multimedia, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ECCV, IEEE ACCV, IEEE ICIP, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ICME, SPIE ITCom, ICPR, CIVR, among others. He is General Co-Chair of Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2006, ACM Multimedia 2009, and ICIMCS 2010, and Program Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2006, Pacific Rim Multimedia (PCM) 2006, and IEEE ICME 2009. Dr. Rui is on the Steering Committees of IEEE ICME, ACM Multimedia, ACM ICMR and PCM. He is the Chair of ACM SIG Multimedia China Chapter.

He served as a member of review panels for the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the Chinese National Science Foundation (CNSF), the Australian Research Council and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.

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.

芮勇博士现任微软亚洲研究院副院长，高级总监，首席研究员，负责多媒体搜索方向，知识挖掘方向以及技术创新方向的科研。 在此之前, 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。 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; 研发总监 (2008-2010)，全面负责公司第一款教育产品在华的研发； 以及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总经理 (2010-2012)，负责集团在华产品技术的创新及孵化。

芮勇是国际电气电子工程学会院士(IEEE Fellow)，国际模式识别学会院士(IAPR Fellow), 国际光学工程学会院士(SPIE 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五十余项。 芮博士是中国科学院，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, 欧美同学会理事会理事, 也是清华企业家协会 (TEEC) 会员。

芮勇担任国际多媒体最权威学刊IEEE Multimedia Magazine副主编 (Associate Editor in Chief)， ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications (TOMCCAP) 编委， Springer-Verlag International Journal on Multimedia Retrieval首任编委。 芮勇还是IEEE Tran on Circuits and Systems for Video Technologies (2006-2010), Springer/ACM Multimedia Systems (2004-2006), Journal International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications (2004-2006), 和IEEE Transaction on Multimedia (2004-2008)编委。 芮博士是国际计算机协会多媒体专委会中国区主席。

芮勇是许多一流国际会议的组织委员会和程序委员会的成员， 包括ACM Multimedia, IEEE CVPR, IEEE ICCV, IEEE ECCV, IEEE ACCV, IEEE ICIP, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ICME, SPIE ITCom, ICPR and CIVR。 芮博士是2009年ACM多媒体大会联合总主席，2006年CIVR联合总主席， 2009年IEEE ICME多媒体大会联合程序委员会主席, 2006年ACM多媒体大会的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。