About
Dr. Nicholas (Jing) Yuan is currently Technical Advisor to the Corporate Vice President (CVP) at Microsoft, working on strategy, long range planning, and technical/product innovations. He also serves as Adjunct Professor in The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Nicholas has demonstrated track record of global influential AI research, AI product, and AI commercialization, as well as extensive experience in technological innovation leadership. He was previously Vice President of AI, Chief Scientist and Director of Language & Speech Innovation Lab at Huawei Cloud, leading a global team to develop and apply cutting-edge AI technologies empowering enterprises and governments. Before that, he was Deputy GM of AI Creation Business Team, also a Senior Applied Scientist Lead/Manager in Microsoft. Earlier than that, he worked as a researcher in Microsoft Research. He got a Ph.D degree in Computer Science and B.S. degree in Mathematics both from University of Science and Technology of China.
During the past years, Nicholas has published more than 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals, including ACM SIGKDD, IEEE TKDE, ACM Ubicomp, ACL, ACM TOIS, WWW, ICDE, AAAI, etc. His research work has been featured by influential media such as MIT Technology Review multiple times. He served as program chair of HuMoComp 2013-2015, industry chair of DASFAA 2017, ASONAM 2016, area chair of NLPCC 2016, and regularly as program committee members in top conferences such as SIGKDD, WWW, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, IJCAI, ICDM, and WSDM. He is a senior member of ACM, IEEE, and CCF. In 2021, he was recognized as Most Influential Scholar in data mining domain by Aminer AI 2000, ranked Top 20 worldwide and Top 2 in China.
Nicholas has been honored with Microsoft Fellowship (2011), Best Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2013), Best Student Paper Award of ACM SIGKDD (2016, 2018) (both as the supervisor of the first author), Best Paper Runner-up Award of ACM SIGSPATIAL (2010), and Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2013). He was granted First-class Prize of Natural Science Award from Ministry of Education in China (2018). He received 10-Year Impact Honorable Award in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020, Test-of-Time Award of ACM SIGKDD 2022, and Test-of-Time Award of IEEE MDM 2023. He is a senior member of ACM, IEEE, and CCF.