Yong Rui, Corporate CTO and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group, will deliver the Department’s annual Lytle Lecture on Thursday, October 17, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Paul Allen Center Atrium.
UW ECE is proud to welcome technology leader and artificial intelligence expert Yong Rui, who will deliver the Department’s annual Lytle Lecture on Thursday, October 17, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Paul Allen Center Atrium. Rui is the Corporate Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group. He oversees a $2.5B research and development budget and directs Lenovo’s technical strategies and R&D directions. Additionally, Rui leads Lenovo Research, which investigates AI, 5G/6G, XR/metaverse, intelligent devices, intelligent computing infrastructure, and smart vertical solutions. This lecture is free to attend and open to the public.
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Rui’s talk will focus on how to bring AI into real-world applications, from an implementation point of view and from an industry perspective. He will also discuss hybrid AI models by examining existing and upcoming technologies and products across the AI industry. Hybrid AI models combine different AI technologies to solve complex problems more efficiently.
“Dr. Rui is a renowned expert with years of experience in AI and computer vision, having conducted and led the development of disruptive technologies in real-time communications, AI systems, and advanced computing technologies, among others, at Microsoft and Lenovo,” said UW ECE Professor Maryam Fazel, who co-chairs the Dean W. Lytle Electrical & Computer Engineering Endowed Lecture Series with UW ECE Affiliate Professor Henrique (Rico) Malvar.
The Dean W. Lytle Electrical & Computer Engineering Endowed Lecture Series is the Department’s premier annual event, featuring internationally renowned researchers in communications, signal processing, control systems, and machine learning. The lectureship is made possible by an endowment established in 2006, the centennial year of the Department, through fundraising efforts led by Louis Scharf (Ph.D. ‘69), a doctoral student of Professor Lytle, in collaboration with Lytle’s wife, Marilyn, and support from the Lytle family. Many members of the UW ECE community responded with generous donations to honor Professor Lytle, including his graduate students, his colleagues at Honeywell’s Marine Systems Center as well as alumni and friends.
For more information about Rui and the Lytle Lecture, visit the Lytle Lecture Series webpage.