Shipeng Yu

Shipeng Yu is a highly accomplished Senior Director of Engineering at LinkedIn, where leadership encompasses a team of AI researchers and engineers focused on driving network growth and member engagement. With extensive experience in machine learning and data science, notable contributions include enhancing LinkedIn Sales Solutions through innovative modeling and search improvements. Shipeng Yu has served in various prestigious roles within the ACM SIGKDD, such as Program Chair for the Applied Data Science Track and Sponsorship Director, significantly impacting the data mining and machine learning community. Prior experience includes key positions at Siemens Healthcare, where leadership in data analytics led to advanced healthcare IT solutions, and at Microsoft Research, where groundbreaking work in web search algorithms was conducted. Academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Statistical Machine Learning from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and degrees in Mathematics and Information Science from Peking University.