is the co-founder and CTO of Clobotics, a global leader in intelligent computer vision solutions for the wind power and retail industries. Prior to co-founding Clobotics, Dr. Ke was the Chief Software Development Officer of EHang, Inc., a technological innovation company specializing in R&D, manufacturing and sales of intelligent aerial vehicles. He hired, led, and developed a group of more than 50 developers, testers, and product managers on the R&D of its drone flight control, mobile and PC apps, and server and cloud services. Dr. Ke is an expert in data mining, machine learning, computer vision, and distributed systems. He previously spent eight years at Microsoft leading the Bing Entity Understanding Group. Dr. Ke has a Bachelor’s in Computer Science, a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, all from Carnegie Mellon University. His Ph.D. thesis topic was on using computer vision to automatically recognize human actions in videos. He is a recipient of the Intel Research Scholar Award, NSF IGERT Fellowship, Microsoft Technical Leadership Award, multiple Microsoft Gold Star Awards, published over 18 top tier conference and journal papers, and holds seven U.S. patents.
