Dr. U (or Kevin) was born in a very small region called Macau, then he spent his first 17.83 years in Macau, until graduated from high school in year 2002. Macau (traditional Chinese: 澳門; simplified Chinese: 澳门), also spelled Macao (/məˈkaʊ/), is along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China. It lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta, bordering Guangdong province to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east and south. It's also called the East Las Vegas, whose gambling revenue was seven times of Las Vegas in year 2014. Below are some views of Macau, see how amazing it is? If you want to know more about Macau, please refer to here.

People always say college is a fresh new start of our life, a place that you make new friends who love you as you are, and find your niche. Attending college in another city did open Dr. U's eyes to the world, his journey to explore the unknown world also started from here. Some milestones are listed as following.

• Left Macau to attend college at Shanghai University.

• Selected by Shanghai University as one of the five Elite Student Representatives participated in the first exchange program between Shanghai University and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Worked at the headquater of Webasto AG. in Munich (Germany) as an IT Intern.
• Selected by the Computer Science department to participate in the "Research Program for Outstanding Undergraduate Students", conducted research in the Computer Systems Research Laboratory.

• Received Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Shanghai University.
• Received A grade on the final year project, an accomplishment shared by only 3% of nearly 300 students in the whole department. The project was not only appraised by the University as "The Excellent Thesis of Shanghai University" but was also published in both national and interntional conferences.
• Started professional career as an Assistant Analyst Programmer (DevOps) at Cable & Wireless Communications (Macau Branch: CTM).

• Promoted to Analyst Programmer (DevOps) at Cable & Wireless Communications (Macau Branch: CTM).

• Promoted to Senior IT Specialist (Info Sec) at Cable & Wireless Communications (Macau Branch: CTM).
• Received full scholarship to pursue Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at The University of Georgia (UGA) in USA.

• Changed major advisor to Professor Khaled Rasheed, and shifted research focus to Machine Learning.
• Received upgraded scholarship from the Department of Pathology (College of Veterinary Medicine), led the implementation of the web-based pathological image searching system: Noah's Arkive.

• Worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a Research Intern, conducted research in the Cloud Performance and Availability Management area. Implemented solutions with Java, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing techniques.

• Received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The University of Georgia (UGA).
• Joined Think Big Analytics, A Teradata Company (NYSE: TDC) as a Senior Data Engineer, moved to Mountain View, CA. Responsible for implementing large-scale/big data processing solutions for corporations utilizing various technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Pig, HBase, Oozie, Java, Shell script, Python, Machine Learning, NLP, etc.).
  • Other offers received:
    • NLP Machine Learning Engineer, Nuance Communications (NYC)

• Joined Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) as a Senior Manager of Data Science, moved to Las Vegas NV. Dr. U was the first Data Scientist at Las Vegas Sands Corp., and later he built out the data science practice across multiple markets (Las Vegas, Singapore, and Macau).
  • Other offers received:
    • Associate (Quant), Goldman Sachs (NYC)
    • Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo! (Sunnyvale, CA)

• Promoted to Global Director of Data Science at Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS), managed a team of Statistics, Data/Text mining, Machine Learning, and Economics Experts to solve very interesting problems. Led multimillion-dollar data engineering & data science projects to drive CX and business growth.

• Joined Carnival Cruise Line (NYSE: CCL, LSE: CCL) as a Senior Director/Head of Marketing Analytics & Data Science, moved to Miami, FL. Responsible for building the Marketing Analytics and Data Science team as a Center of Excellence to drive CX and business growth, reported to the Chief Marketing Officer (later the Chief Digital Officer).
  • Other offers received:
    • Head of Data Science, Cigna (NYC)
    • VP of Data Science & Engineering, 20th Century Fox (Los Angeles, CA)
    • VP of Data Science, Credit Sesame (San Francisco, CA)
    • Chief Technology Officer, InsurTech Big Data Startup (Beijing, China)

• Received an offer from the Taobao Technology Division under Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), mainly responsible for leveraging technology solutions to drive CX and business growth. Having considered all the factors combined, decided not to make the move, yet.

• Joined American Express (NYSE: AXP) as a Vice President of Engineering, Data Strategy & Transformation. Responsible for Data Strategy & Intelligence, A.I./Machine Learning, and Omnichannel CX Transformation; reports to Unit CIO of Global Services Group and Corporate CTO. His focus is to drive strategic planning and a cohesive set of technology solutions enabling data and platform transformation, by collaborating across all channel teams and the critical technology platforms that support Colleague and Customer Experiences.
  • Other offers received:
    • VP of Market Intelligence & Analytics, Priceline.com (Norwalk, CT/ NYC)
    • VP, Head of Data Science, TracFone Wireless, Inc. (Miami, FL)
    • Chief Information & Data Officer, Motorsport Network (Miami, FL)

• Promoted to Vice President, Enterprise Data Architecture & Machine Learning at American Express. Leading global strategy and development of Enterprise Data Architecture, Enterprise Real-Time Event Processing & Analytics Platform, Enterprise Machine Learning Engineering, and chairing the Model Technology Risk Committee enabling E2E development and execution of AmEx's AI/ML and data management strategy, to drive AI+Human-driven decision making.
• Accepted the invitation to serve as a Affiliate Graduate Faculty at Florida Atlantic University - College of Engineering & Computer Science.
• Accepted the invitation to serve as an Advisory Board Member at University of Miami Institute for Data Science & Computing (IDSC).

• Promoted to Vice President (Unit CIO), Head of Enterprise Data Technology & Augmented Intelligence at American Express. Leading a cross-functional unit of 1000+ team members to drive global Data Technology and Augmented Intelligence across the Enterprise.
• Accepted the invitation to become a Council Member at Google Cloud AI Technical Advisory Council (TAC).
• Accepted the invitation to serve as an Advisory Board Member at University of Georgia Computer Science Department.