Guo Minyi

Excellent Academic Leaders of Shanghai 2010

Minyi Guo is a chair professor and Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Dr. Guo received the BSc and ME degrees in computer science from Nanjing University, China, in 1982 and 1986 respectively, and the PhD degree in computer science in 1998 from the University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Before joined SJTU, Dr. Guo had been a professor and department chair of school of computer science and engineering, University of Aizu, Japan. Dr. Guo received the national science fund for distinguished young scholars from NSFC in 2007. His present research interests include parallel/distributed computing, compiler optimizations, embedded systems, pervasive computing, and bioinformatics. He received 5 best paper awards from international conferences, and has more than 230 publications in major journals and international conferences in these areas, including the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, INFOCOM, IPDPS, ICS, CASES, ICPP, WWW, PODC, etc. He is on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Besides Dr. Guo is a senior member of IEEE, member of ACM, IEICE IPSJ, and CCF.

Xu Lei

Lei Xu, Chair professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Also, he is a Chair professor of Computer Science & Eng., Chinese University Hong Kong since 2002,  Chang Jiang Chair Professor of Peking University since 2007. Elected to Fellow of IEEE since 2001; Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition since 2002 and of European Academy of Sciences since 2002. He completed his Ph.D thesis at Tsinghua Univ by the end of 1986, and get PhD certificate March 1987. Then, he came to Peking Univ as postdoc and get promoted to associate professor in 1988and professor in 1992. During 1989-93 he was postdoc in Finland, Canada and USA, including Harvard and MIT. He joined CUHK as senior lecturer in 1993, professor in 1996, and chair professor in 2002.
He has published about 100 Journal papers, given over dozens keynote /invited lectures at various international conferences, and been internationally known with several well-cited contributions on randomized Hough Transform, rival penalized competitive learning, classifier combination, mixture models, adaptive PCA learning, and Bayesian Ying-Yang harmony learning (e.g., up to the early 2014, his papers got thousands SCI-citations and over 10000 Google Scholar citations, with the top-10 papers getting over 2500 SCI-citations and about 6000 Google Scholar citations).
Prof. Xu is the founding editor-in-chief of Springer OA Journal Applied Informatics, and current or past associate editors for eight academic journals. Prof. Xu has received several national and international academic awards, including 1993 National Nature Science Award, 1995 Leadership Award from international neural network society and 2006 APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award.

Li Jie

Jia Weijia

Excellent Academic Leaders of Shanghai 2013

Prof. Weijia Jia is currently a Zhiyuan Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Professor Jia received PhD in Computer Science from Polytechnic Faculty of Mons, Belgium in 1993. He joined German National Research Center for Information Science (GMD) in Bonn (St. Augustine) from 1993 to 1995 as a research fellow. From 1995 to 2013, he joined Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong as an assistant/associate and full professor.

His research interests include next generation wireless communication, protocols and heterogeneous networks; distributed systems, multicast and anycast QoS routing protocols. In these fields, he has over 400 publications in the prestige international journals (IEEE Transactions, e.g., ToN, TPDS, TC, TMC etc.), books/chapters and refereed international conference proceedings. He (with W. Zhou) has published a book “Distributed Network Systems” by Springer where the book contains extensive research materials and implementation examples. His most recent theoretical and system work on Stable Matching revel Cyclic Stable Matching property for Three-sided Networking Services. He has contributed Vertex Cover problem analysis with a jointly paper that received other citations over 400. He has received many best products awards in the international high-tech exhibitions. He is the guest Professor of Beijing U (ShenZhen Graduate School), University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Chengdu University, China. He has served as the editors of IEEE TPDS and ComCom and PC chairs and members/keynote speakers for various prestige international conferences. He is the Senior Member of IEEE and the Member of ACM.

Liang Xiaoyao

Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts 2012

Xiaoyao Liang is a professor and the associate dean in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained his Ph.D degree from Harvard University. He has ample industry experience working as a senior architect or IC designer at companies like NVIDIA, Intel and IBM.

His research interests include computer processor and system architectures, energy efficient and resilient microprocessor design, high throughput and parallel computing, general purpose graphic processing unit (GPGPU) and hardware/software co-design for the cloud and mobile computing. He is also interested in IC design, VLSI methodology, FPGA innovations and compiler technology.

He has published many papers at top international conferences such as ISCA, HPCA, MICRO, ISSCC and ICCAD. Two of his papers were selected into IEEE Micro Top Picks, awarded annually to 10 best papers from all the top computer architecture conferences. He is also a PC member and reviewer for many top conferences and journals.

Yu Kai

Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts 2012

Kai Yu entered the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University,P.R.China in 1994. After obtaining B.Eng. in 1999, he continued his study for M.Sc. in the State Key Laboratory of Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Systems in the same department untill 2002. He then joined the Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIL), where he obtained his PhD in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Mark Gales. He worked as a research associate, and later senior research associate in MIL until 2012 with Prof. Phil. Woodland and Prof. Steve Young. He is now a research professor at Computer Science and Engineering Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ISCA and the IET. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed top journal and conference publications on speech recognition, synthesis and dialogue systems. He was the area chair for speech recognition and processing for NTERSPEECH 2009 and EUSIPCO 2011, the publication chair for IEEE ASRU 2011, and the area chair of spoken dialogue systems for INTERSPEECH 2014. He was selected into the “1000 Overseas Talent Plan (Young Talent)” by Chinese central government in 2012. He was also selected into the Programme for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning.

Lu Cewu

Wang Lei

Lei Wang is a research professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests are mainly design and analysis of fundamental cryptographic primitives. Highlights include cross research on Cryptanalysis and Functional Graph, finding security vulnerabilities of international and national standardized cryptographic algorithms, etc. Lei has published many papers in top-tier conferences including CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT and ASIACRYPT. He won the first-prize award from the Streebog Competition held by Russian government. Besides, he has received several best paper awards, and has been invited to serve as PC member in many top conferences and journals and to give invited talks on several international and domestic conferences. 

Tu Shikui

Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts 2018


Shikui Tu is a research professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), and also is the academic secretary of Center for Cognitive Machines and Computational Health (CMaCH). Before he joined SJTU, he was a postdoctoral associate with UMass Worcester between Dec. 2012 and Jan. 2017. He got his B.Sc. from Peking University in 2006, and then obtained Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012. His research interests include machine learning, and bioinformatics. He has published more than 30 academic papers in top conferences and journals, including Science, Cell, NAR, etc. with high impact factors. He is a managing editor of the Springer-Nature Open-Access Journal Applied Informatics, and PC members of top conferences including ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, NIPS, and so on.