Jingyi Yu is currently Professor and Executive Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology at the ShanghaiTech University. He received B.S. from Caltech in 2000 and Ph.D. from MIT in 2005. He has published over 140 papers at highly refereed conferences and journals, and
holds over 20 international patents on computer vision and computational imaging. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and has organized many international conferences in computer vision. He is a member of Shanghai AI Advisory Committee, and co-founder of DGene, a prominent startup on AI-driven digital entertainment. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, and Elsevier CVIU. He was a program chair of ICCP 2016, ICPR 2020, WACV 2021, and will be a program chair of two top AI conferences, IEEE CVPR 2021 and ICCV 2025.