Yi Zhang is a tenured professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and cofounder and CTO of Rulai. Yi has 20 years of research experience in AI. She has received various awards, including an ACM SIGIR best paper award, the National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award, a Google research award, a Microsoft research award, and an IBM research fellowship. She has been a program cochair, area chair, and PC member for various top international conferences. Yi has served as a consultant or a technical adviser for several companies and startups, including Alibaba, Toyota, and HP. She holds a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.