Dr. Cuibaoqiu (Baogiu Cui) — Founder & CEO of Beijing Ruoban Technology, Chairman of the Zhongguancun Digital-AI Industry Alliance, former Vice President of Xiaomi Group. Dr. Cui is a seasoned technology executive with nearly three decades of experience in R&D and management across the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence sectors. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University (State University of New York) in 2000, following an M.S. (1994) and B.S. (1991) in Computer Science from Wuhan University. He joined Xiaomi in 2012, where he founded and led the company's AI and Cloud Platform teams. At Xiaomi, he spearheaded the company's strategic technology evolution from cloud computing to big data and then to AI, and led the development of Xiao Ai — Xiaomi's first strategic AI product and its flagship smart assistant. Prior to Xiaomi, Dr. Cui held key engineering roles in Silicon Valley at LinkedIn, Yahoo, and IBM. His long-standing interests lie in the technological development and industrial application of AI, robotics, and the Internet of Things (IoT)