Si Luo

Si Luo, Head of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Alibaba DAMO Academy Luo Si is one of the first AI scientists who have shifted from academia to the industrial community. Prior to his post at Alibaba Cloud, he was a tenured professor of the Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University. He managed 20 research projects, all of which received funds from the U.S. government or the industrial community. He is a recipient of multiple awards from institutions such as the National Science Foundation, Yahoo, and Google. He is the author of more than 150 academic publications that are extensively cited. He worked as an associate editor for Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) and Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS) of ACM as well as the Information Processing & Management journal. He assumed important roles in international academic conferences, such as Research Track Program Chair of ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2016. He holds a master's degree and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, and holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. He joined Alibaba Cloud as an AI scientist in 2014 and has led the NLP team to achieve significant technological milestones.