Dr. Zhang is a world leading expert in machine learning. He obtained BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University, and MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is a professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Previously Tong Zhang was a full professor at Rutgers University, and worked at IBM, Yahoo as research scientists, and Baidu as the founding Director of Big Data Lab. He was also the founding Director of Tencent AI Lab. Dr. Tong Zhang was an ASA fellow and IMS fellow, and has served as the chair or area-chair in major machine learning conferences such as NIPS, ICML, and COLT, and has served as associate editors in top machine learning journals such as PAMI, JMLR, and Machine Learning Journal.