Dr. Yuanqing Lin is now the Director of the Baidu Institute of Deep Learning. Dr. Lin received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 2008. After that, he joined NEC Labs America as a Research Staff Member, working on feature learning and large-scale classification. In 2010, he led the NEC-UIUC team and won the No.1 place in ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge. In April 2012, he became the head of the Media Analytics Department at NEC Labs America. His team was focusing on two major research directions, large-scale fine-grained image recognition and 3D visual sensing for autonomous driving. In November 2015, he joined Baidu, and his research interests are in machine learning, computer vision and robotics. He served as the Area Chair for NIPS 2015.