Lei Feng network AI Technology Review: A few days ago, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery International) announced the list of ACM Distinguished Scientist year 2018, the global total of 49 researchers selected. Among them, Chinese scholars did a great job, a total of 12 of the list, accounting for nearly a quarter of the proportion of the list.
As the world's largest professional organization of academic computer field, ACM's influence is self-evident. It was founded in 1947, currently has more than 100,000 members in more than 130 countries and regions around the world, which they named the Turing Award is the computer industry's most prestigious and highest award, known as the "computer world Nobel prize. " ACM Distinguished Scientist (Distinguished Member) Award since 2006, is intended to provide for the recognition of at least 15 years of professional experience, and has made an outstanding contribution in the field of computers or have a huge impact of ACM members. ACM Distinguished Scientist Award proportion of not more than 10% ACM former members.
The following named ACM Distinguished Scientist of Chinese scholars list:
- Chang Yi: current president of Jilin University School of artificial intelligence, a former vice president of Huawei USA Institute of Technology
Profile: Chang Yi, Ph.D., President of Artificial Intelligence School of Jilin University, CCF YOCSEF AC, the thirteenth installment of "thousands of people plan" professor. He served as vice president of Huawei America Research Institute, responsible for Huawei's search engine, mapping knowledge, question answering system technology to build, and before that, served as research director of the American Academy of Yahoo, Yahoo's search engine and has overall responsibility for vertical search engines the algorithm. His research interests include information retrieval, data mining, natural language processing and artificial intelligence, published more than 100 papers, and published a monograph, with more than 30 patents, won the Best Paper top international mining conference KDD 2016 General Assembly Award, the top search engine WSDM 2016 the General Assembly of the international Conference best paper Award, served as President of the General Assembly WSDM 2018, and served as President of the Assembly's top SIGIR 2020 international Conference on information retrieval.
- Wang Jingdong: Microsoft Research Asia is currently a senior fellow at Visual Computing Group
Profile: Wang Jingdong, the current Visual Computing group at Microsoft Research Asia senior researcher, research interests include computer vision, machine learning and multimedia. At present the problem of his research including the design of network structure and efficient nerve, pedestrians and then identify and multimedia search, which published more than 100 papers in vision, machine learning and multimedia field, his monograph one, which research 10 repeatedly transformed into Microsoft's key products and services. He has served as Chairman of the areas of computer vision and artificial intelligence conference CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ACMMM etc. and senior members of the program committee. He is also IEEE Transactions on IEEE Transactions on Patten Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, as well as international Moshishibie Society Fellow.
- Chen Yiran (Yiran Chen): US tenured Associate Professor at Duke University, director of the US National Science Foundation Committee of Intelligence and sustainable computing industry cooperation center
Profile: Chen contend is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Duke University evolutionary Co-Director of Intelligence Center, US Zirankexue Foundation of new sustainable industry-university Center for Intelligent Computing director, research direction for the new memory, and neuromorphic computing machine learning acceleration, mobile computing, published more than 300 papers, obtained 93 US patents, has published a monograph. 2017, which is due to "spin memory 'contributions to elected IEEE Fellow.
- Chen Lei: Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, President of ACM Hong Kong Computer Society
Profile: Chen Lei, currently Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, President of ACM Hong Kong Computer Society, his research areas include: probability and uncertainty databases, social network crowdsourcing analysis, multimedia and time-series database, publishing and other privacy data. 2009 and 2010, his paper is Database System For Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009 & 2010) continuous awarded the Best Paper Award. In recent years, Dr. Chen Lei held a series of international conferences and served as ACM SIGMM 2011, vice chairman of the program committee ACM CIKM 2012 and IEEE ICDE 2012 conference also served as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) and other international journal editorial Board (Associate Editors).
- Jia Xiaohua: Professor Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, ACM Senior Member, IEEE Fellow
Profile: Jia Xiaohua, "Cheung Kong Scholars Program" Distinguished Professor in 2013, "thousands of plans," National Distinguished experts, engaged in distributed systems, Internet routing protocol, Internet proxy placement, placement WAN wavelength converter, documents and a copy of its control consistency, consistency aspects of the co-editor of control systems, mobile Ad Hoc network on the Internet and other research projects 18, published more than 130 papers, including SCI index of more than 50. He is a senior member of ACM, IEEE Fellow, also served as the International Journal Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (Kluwer Academic Pub) Editorial Board and the Special Issue on Cluster Computing on the guest editor of the magazine of the Internet, etc. In addition, he or distributed systems and computer a member of the organizing committee or the chairman of the international Conference on multiple areas of communication.
- Li Feifei: University of Utah School of Computer Science Associate Professor, School of Dharma Ali, head of the laboratory database and storage
Profile: Li Feifei, currently vice president of Alibaba, chief scientist Dharma hospital database, the database is responsible for Dharma hospital laboratory, before joining Alibaba is a tenured professor at the United States Department of Computer Science University of Utah. His research database systems, large data management theory and system design and development, as well as the security of cloud data management. He won the National Science Foundation's Caeer Award, the US HP's Innovation Research Program Award, the US Google's Faculty Award, Visa USA's Faculty Research Award, the research results won IEEE ICDE 2004 Best Paper Award, IEEE ICDE 201,410 years the most influential award, ACM SIGMOD 2015 Award for the best presentation systems, ACM SIGMOD 2016 best paper Award and the ACM SIGMOD 2017 Research Highlights Award. In addition, he also served as demonstration chairman VLDB 2014 and SIGMOD 2018 program, the President of the General Assembly SIGMOD 2014's, ICDE 2014, SIGMOD 2015, the President of SIGMOD 2019 technical field program, the President of VLDB 2019 and ICDE 2019 doctoral forum, IEEE TKDE, ACM TODS , editorial board member of Springer DAPD and annual SIGMOD Jim Gray best doctoral dissertation Award Committee.
- Fu Yun (Yun Fu): Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, IEEE Senior Member, ACM Life Member
Profile: Fu Yun Northeastern University associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IEEE Senior Member, ACM lifetime membership. His research interests are machine learning, intelligent computing, social media analysis, human-computer interaction and physical network systems, has published more than 170, get five Best Paper Award and three Young Scholar Award, and other awards. He has served researchers at BBN Technologies, an assistant professor at the State University of New York, is now a major leader SMILE Lab Laboratory of Northeastern University.
- Dong Xin (Xin Luna Dong): Amazon is currently chief scientist, worked at Google
Profile: Dong Yan, the current Amazon chief scientist, worked at Google, AT & T Labs. Her research interests include big data and machine learning, focusing on data integration, data cleansing and knowledge base, published in top conferences and journals and more than 50, won SIGMOD 200 5 Best Award presentation system. She has served respectively WAIM 2015, SIGMOD 2015, PC co-chair of ICDE 2013, regional chairman and senior members of the PC.
9.Chen Li: Professor Irvine School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, is the CTO and co-founder of SRCH2
Profile: Chen Li, a professor at Irvine School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, was invited to visit Google's research scientists. His research interests include data management and information search, focusing on text search, data cleaning, data integration and data-intensive computing, we have received SIGMOD 2012 "time-tested paper award." In addition, he was a co-founder of SRCH2 and CTO.
10.Xipeng Shen: Professor of Computer Science, North Carolina State University
Profile: Senior members of the Xipeng Shen, professor and member of NCSU Computer Systems Laboratory at North Carolina State University, also distinguished speakers ACM, IEEE, the US Department of Energy has received the Young Scientist Award (DOE Early Career Award), National Science Achievement Award Foundation (NSF CAREER Award), professor of Google Research Award and IBM CAS academician awards, also was awarded professor at the University scholar Award. His broad areas of research involve programming systems and machine learning, focusing on research by the compiler, runtime system and innovative machine learning algorithms to achieve data-intensive computing and smart extreme scale computing.
11.Yizhou Yu: Professor Department of Computer Science University of Hong Kong, the main deep learning, computer vision and image processing
Profile: Yizhou Yu, a professor of Computer Science University of Hong Kong, was in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign satisfied Ecuador (UIUC) made a tenured professor for 12 years, has studied with eBay, Google Brain Research Institute and Microsoft cooperation. Depth learning His research interests include machine intelligence, computer vision media, geometric computing, intelligent video surveillance and biomedical data analysis, in depth learning, computer vision, image processing, graphics algorithms and VR / AR and other AI and visual computing made important contributions to the field, published more than 120 papers in top journals and conferences, was awarded the 2002 Achievement Award national Science Foundation (NSF CAREER Award), 2007 NNSF China overseas outstanding young investigator Award, 2011 and 2005 ACM SCA best paper Award, Microsoft fellowships in 1998.
12.Danfeng Yao: Computer associate professor at Virginia Tech, software and systems security experts
Profile: Danfeng Yao is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, is a software and systems security experts. She has a number of US patents anomaly detection technology, is the lead author of "Anomaly Detection as a Service" book, research malware detection of human behavior but had driven the US National Science Foundation Achievement Award (NSF CAREER Award), due to security task-oriented semantic reasoning to get ARO young Investigator Award (ARO young Investigator Award), also received a number of best paper and best Poster Award.
After reading Chinese scholars enrolled, we also take a look at the overall situation of 2018 ACM Distinguished Scientist of the Year list:
According to official reports, this time All of these 49 scientists, universities, companies and research institutions from the world's top, where countries including Australia, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom .
On the computer specific professional direction, the background was selected personnel also vary, their main interests include algorithms, artificial intelligence, computer architecture, computer science, education, network security, graphics and even human-computer interaction.
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