Prof. Yu got his master degree at the CS department of East China Normal University. He began to work in Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1986. Now he is a Ph.D. candidate tutor and the director of Apex Data & Knowledge Management Lab. His research interests include: web search, semantic search, data mining and machine learning. He has served as PC member of a dozen of related conferences (e.g. ISWC, WWW, SIGIR, RecSys, etc) in these field. As the principal investigator, he took charge of several NSFC (National Natural Science Foundation of China) and China National High Tech "863" Program projects. He has also established long-term collaborations with IBM China research lab, Microsoft research Asia, Google China and Intel China developing center to carry out several joint projects. As the head coach of SJTU ACM-ICPC team, he and his team have won the 2002, 2005 and 2010 ACM ICPC Championships.

Weinan earned his Ph.D. from University College London in 2016 and B.Eng. from ACM Class of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011. His research interests include machine learning and big data mining, particularly, deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques for real-world data mining scenarios, such as computational advertising, recommender systems, text mining, web search and knowledge graphs. Weinan has published more than 30 papers in top international conferences including KDD, CIKM, SIGIR, AAAI and RecSys. He also has made publications in well-recognized journals including JMLR, ACM TIST and IPM. He was an intern at Microsoft Research, Google, MediaGamma and DERI.

Shaodian earned his Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from Columbia University. Most of his previous and undergoing research projects lie between artificial intelligence and medicine. In particular, Shaodian has top-tier research experience in medical natural language processing and data mining. He has published in top biomedical informatics venues such as JAMIA, JBI, and top NLP venues such as ACL. He is currently the CEO and principal scientist of Synyi medical technology. Shaodian is also a fellow of CMIA (Chinese medical informatics association), and he was selected as one of the Forbes Asia 30 under 30 (Healthcare) in 2017.