YU Kai

Director, the Institute of Deep Learning (IDL) at Baidu

Dr. Kai Yu is currently directing the Institute of Deep Learning (IDL) at Baidu, which is the Artificial Intelligence Lab of the company. Prior to this position, he was the Director of the Multimedia Department at Baidu. Previously, he was a Department Head at NEC Laboratories America and a Senior Research Scientist at Siemens. In 2011 he was a Visiting Faculty at CS Dept of Stanford University, teaching "CS121: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence". Kai has published over 70 papers with H-index 33, was Area Chairs at top-tier machine learning conferences, e.g., ICML and NIPS, and co-authored papers receiving the Best Paper Runner-up Awards at PKDD 2005 and ICML 2013. His team has won several prestigious computer vision competitions, including PASCAL VOC 2009 and ImageNet 2010. Since 2012 his team at Baidu has worked on speech recognition, image search, deep learning, online advertising, web search, 3D street view, and robotics, has made significant contributions to a wide range of core products. He received BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at Nanjing University, China, and a PhD degree in Computer Science at University of Munich, Germany.