Xian-Sheng Hua, Senior Director (iDST of Alibaba Group), IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, National Distinguished Expert of the Thousand Talents Plan. Dr. Hua received the B.S. degree in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics in 2001, both from Peking University, Beijing, China. He joined Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, in 2001, as a Researcher. He was a Principal Research and Development Lead in Multimedia Search for the Microsoft search engine, Bing, Redmond, WA, USA, from 2011 to 2013. He was a Senior Researcher with Microsoft Research Redmond, Redmond, WA, USA, from 2013 to 2015.