Keynote Speakers
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Yu Zheng
Vice President of JD.COM, Chief Data Scientist of JD Technology |
| Title: Urban Computing: Building Intelligent Cities Using Big Data and AI | |
| Abstract: Urban computing connects ubiquitous sensing technologies, advanced data management and analytics models, and novel visualization methods, to create win-win-win solutions that improve urban environment, life quality, and city operation systems. This talk presents the vision and framework of urban computing, introducing the challenges and the-state-of-the-art solutions in each layer of the framework. Based on the vision of urban computing, we have built an intelligent city operation system which has been deployed in over 20 cities as a digital foundation to empower Big Data-driven applications. | |
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Bio: Dr. Yu Zheng is the Vice President of JD.COM and head JD Intelligent Cities Research. Before Joining JD.COM, he was a senior research manager at Microsoft Research. He was the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology and has served as the program co-chair of ICDE 2014 and CIKM 2017 and industrial chair of IJCAI 2019. He is also a keynote speaker of AAAI 2019, KDD 2019 Plenary Keynote Panel and IJCAI 2019 Industrial Days. He received the SIGKDD Test-of-Time Award in 2023 and SIGSPATIAL 10-Year-Impact Award for four times in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023 respectively. His monograph, entitled Urban Computing, has been used as the first text book in this field. In 2013, he was named one of the Top Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review (TR35) and featured by Time Magazine for his research on urban computing. In 2016, Zheng was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist and elevated to an IEEE Fellow in 2020 for his contributions to spatio-temporal data mining and urban computing.
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Publisher: MIT Press
Authors: Yu Zheng
Year: 2019
ISBN: 978-0-2620-3908-6
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Zhenhui (Jessie) Li
Chief Scientist at Yunqi Academy of Engineering |
| Title: The Critical Role of Cyber Infrastructure in City Innovation and Beyond | |
| Abstract: Cities, human's greatest inventions, offer many opportunities for science and technology innovations. The increasingly available big data paints a bright future for our cities. However, significant hurdles stand in our way, primarily due to the absence of the right cyber infrastructure to easily share, analyze, and act on data. In this talk, I will share my firsthand experiences working with city practitioners. I have seen how difficult it is to make real progress without the appropriate digital tools and systems in place. This shortfall prevents us from addressing some of the most pressing challenges cities face. I will discuss how to create better cyber infrastructure for our cities. Moreover, I will argue that such infrastructure is vital not only for city innovations but also across all scientific disciplines in our era driven by big data, advanced computing, and artificial intelligence. | |
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Bio: Dr. Zhenhui (Jessie) Li currently serves as the chief scientist at the Yunqi Academy of Engineering, a non-profit institution situated in Hangzhou, China. Prior to this role, she held a tenured associate professor position at Pennsylvania State University. She earned her doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research has been primarily devoted to advancing computing technologies to unlock the potential of data for cross-disciplinary research, with a specific emphasis on city applications. For further information, you can visit her website at (https://jessielzh.com/).
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