Dr. Feng Yan is a tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Houston, and the director of the Intelligent Data and Systems Lab (IDS Lab). Dr. Yan’s research bridges the fields of big data, AI, and systems. Some of his recently focused research topics include large language models (LLM), large-scale distributed deep learning, machine learning as a service (MLaaS), federated learning, AutoML, serverless computing, and broad topics in cloud and high performance computing (HPC). Dr. Yan is also dedicated to interdisciplinary research and has established fruitful collaborations with domain experts in areas such as health, physics, geography, material science, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and innovated big data and AI-driven approaches for these domains. Dr. Yan closely collaborates with industry partners (such as Microsoft AI & Research, IBM Research, Google Brain, Meta AI, Bell Labs, Amazon AI Lab, HP Labs, NetApp ATG) to solve challenging yet impactful problems.Dr. Yan has led and participated in several projects that attracted more than $4M external funding, including $2.6M as PI/Site-PI. Dr. Yan and his team are actively publishing at the most prestigious venues in AI/machine learning areas (such as NIPS/NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, AAAI, etc.) and computer system areas (such as SOSP, SC, HPDC, USENIX ATC, EuroSys, FAST, VLDB, etc.).Dr. Yan has advised (advising) 14 PhD students, 7 MS students, 21 undergraduate students, and 3 K-12 students. Dr. Yan's students have been recruited by top industry research labs such as Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Amazon Web Services, and national labs such as Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Yan and his students are the recipients of the Best Student Paper Award of IEEE CLOUD 2018, the Best Paper Award of CLOUD 2019, and the Best Student Paper Award of ITNG 2021. Dr. Yan is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the NSF CRII Award, the Outstanding Service Award of IEEE ACSOS, the Regents' Rising Researcher Award, and the CSE Best Researcher Award. Dr. Yan serves as Social Media Chair of ACM SIGMETRICS. For more information, please visit Dr. Yan’s homepage: www.cs.uh.edu/~fyan/.