Rui Yang received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1992, and the EMBA degree in Business Administration and Management from Hofstra University, Frank G. Zarb School of Business in 2006.  He has more than 20 years of experience in the research and development of advanced wireless communication systems. Since he joined InterDigital, Inc. in 2000, he has led several product and research projects for 3G, 4G and 5G systems. He is currently a Director of Engineering at InterDigital, leading a team on research and standardization of advanced wireless communication networks. His interests include digital signal processing, air interface design, wireless sensing and application of artificial intelligence for future communication systems, and wireless for machine learning.