[6] Before taking office as Lenovo CTO and SVP in November 2016, Rui had worked at Microsoft for 18 years.

[5] Rui's areas of research include multimedia analysis, understanding, and retrieval, and artificial intelligence.

[14] In 2010, he was honored with the Most Cited Paper of the Decade Award from the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.

[16] Rui serves as the editor-in-chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine, an associate editor of ACM Trans.

In addition, Rui was an executive member of ACM SIGMM and the founding chair of its China Chapter.