 Liu Feng
Vice President of 21Vianet Company
Liu Feng, Vice President of 21Vianet Company, General Manager of Northern China, Responsible for the sales, revenue, solution consulting, service delivery and operation of Northern China region. At the same time, he is also in charge of corporate operation center, including IT strategies, business operation supporting system development, new business software development, network solution consulting and customer service center. Before he joined 21Vianet, he was Vice president of Asiainfo Technologies, had been working in various positions in Asiainfo, including sales, delivery, research and development, marketing and international business with rich experience in Telecom customer management, R&D management, Project delivery and international market. He was graduated from Mechanics Engineering in Tsinghua University with Bachelor degree of Engineering EMBA master degree of Tsinghua University SEM. |
Xiaoou Liu
China Telecom
In 2016, she joined China telecom after earning her master's degree. Xiaoou Liu has been engaged in industry solution preparation and project management. Currently, she is mainly responsible for cloud computing, artificial intelligence and block chain and other emerging technology research and industry application exploration. |
 Hua Qu
Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Hua Qu, BS in Communication Eng., Ph.D in Computer Science，Prof.and Director of Institute of Advanced Information and Communication Technologies, Xi'an Jiaotong University. He worked in national telecom operator worked in SPC digit switch and digit transmission systems and networks from early 1982, thereafter he have been working in telecom fields in research, teaching, engineering for 36 years, he and his team recently focusing in future networks and mobile systems with its networks, and SDN, CDN, NGI, AI, smart city and big data, mobile internet, etc. All those researches supported by various national funds. He was stayed in Japan, in US and in German for research in telecom systems and networks. He is also a member of Chinese expert group to ITU in Geneva. |
 Wojciech Samek
Head, Machine Learning Group, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
Wojciech Samek is head of the Machine Learning Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Berlin, Germany. He studied computer science at Humboldt University of Berlin, Heriot-Watt University and University of Edinburgh from 2004 to 2010, was visiting researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, in 2009, and received the Ph.D. degree from the Technische Universität Berlin in 2014. He is associated with the Berlin Big Data Center and is an editorial board member of Digital Signal Processing. He was a co-chair of the 2017 Workshop on Deep Learning and was organizer of workshops on interpretable AI and machine learning at ICANN'16, ACCV'16 and NIPS'17. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, predominantly in the areas deep learning, interpretable artificial intelligence, robust signal processing and computer vision. |
 Reinhard Scholl
ITU
Reinhard Scholl is Deputy to the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (also known as the ITU-T Secretariat). Previously he has been with Siemens in Munich, Germany and with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois, USA. He also served on the ICANN Board. |
 Slawomir Stanczak
Full Professor, TU Berlin and Head, Wireless Communications and Networks Department
Studied electrical engineering with specialization in control theory at the Wroclaw University of Technology and at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin). He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1998 and the Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering in 2003, both from TU Berlin; the Habilitation degree (venialegendi) followed in 2006. Since 2015, he has been a Full Professor for network information theory with TU Berlin and the head of the Wireless Communications and Networks department. Prof. Stanczak has been involved in research and development activities in wireless communications since 1997. In 2004 and 2007, he was a Visiting Professor with RWTH Aachen University and in 2008, he was a Visiting Scientist with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He is a co-author of two books and more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in the area of information theory, wireless communications, signal processing and machine learning. Prof. Stanczak received research fellowships from the German Research Foundation and the Best Paper Award from the German Communication Engineering Society in 2014. He was a Co-chair of the 14th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2013). Between 2009 and 2011, he was an Associate Editor of the European Transactions for Telecommunications (information theory) and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing between 2012 and 2015. |
 Lingjie Xu
Director Heterogeneous Computing, Alibaba
Lingjie Xu, Director of Heterogeneous Computing at Alibaba Infrastructure Service (AIS). His team is currently focusing on applied AI architecture and SW/HW interplay. Before joining Alibaba, he held various senior management and architect roles in NVIDIA, AMD and Samsung, all in GPU area. He obtained MBA from University of California, Berkeley, MS in Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin, and BSEE from Shanghai Jiaotong University. |
