Vien Hu

Innovation Manager, Merck China Innovation Center

The current innovation manager of Merck's China Innovation Center is mainly devoted to the research of artificial intelligence models and data mining algorithms, which are applied to the intersection of biology, medical and other fields. He used to be a research scientist at IBM Research Institute, leading the development of a disease progression management platform based on billions of patient data, a visiting researcher at the University of Calgary, and the founder of Westport Technology. He has published more than 40 papers in top international conferences and journals such as ACL, IJCAI, and Bioinformatics. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Frontiers in Neurorobotics and other journal editors, IEEE SMC 2020, IJCNN 2020 and other conference field chairmen. Ph.D. graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.