Dr. Yu Zheng is a lead researcher from Microsoft Research Asia. He is passionate about using data sciences to solve the challenges that cities face, such as traffic congestion and air pollution. He published over 50 quality papers (e.g. at SIGMOD and KDD), received 4 best paper awards (e.g. ICDE'13), and served conferences as a chair (e.g. ICDE2014). His book, titled “Computing with Spatial Trajectories”, has been used as a text book in universities. In 2008, he was recognized as Microsoft Golden Star. In 2013, he was invited to be a Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University.