Yong LiuYong Liu has been working in big data science, machine learning, and optimization since his doctoral student years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and later as a senior research scientist and principal investigator at the Natonal Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), where he led data science R&D projects funded by the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research. He then joined Microsoft and AI/ML start-ups in the industry. He has shipped ML and DL models to production and has been a speaker at the Spark/Data+AI summit and NLP summit. He has recently published peer-reviewed papers on deep learning, linked data, and knowledge-infused learning at various ACM/IEEE conferences and journals. Read More Read Less