Yong Rui,
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Lenovo:
Dr. Yong Rui, who joined Lenovo in November 2016, is the Corporate Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group.Rui played a critical role in establishing Lenovo’s first Technology Committee and has been serving as its vice-chair since inception. He oversees Lenovo’s overall technology strategy and R&D planning. Additionally, he leads the Lenovo Research organization that researches and develops technology advancements in the areas of advanced computing, artificial intelligence, cloud/edge computing, device innovation, wireless communications, metaverse, and vehicle computing.
Rui’s leadership and contributions were key to Lenovo’s making BCG’s list of Top 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world.
Before joining Lenovo, Rui spent 18 years with Microsoft, where he held various leadership roles in R&D strategy, basic research, technology incubation, and product development.
A Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, and SPIE, as well as a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea and Canadian Academy of Engineering, Rui is a world-renowned technologist and is recognized as a leading expert in AI. He holds 110 patents and is the recipient of the prestigious 2018 ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award as well as the 2016 IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award.
Rui received his BS from Southeast University summa cum laude, his MS from Tsinghua University, and his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).