On 28 September , Dr. Gao Dehong, Search advertising algorithm leader of Alibaba International, gave a lecture on the theme of” Research and Application of Multimodal Technology in E-commerce Field” to UIC students and staffs.

Dr. Gao joined Alibaba and was responsible for algorithms in the field of search/recommendation/advertising.  He has accumulated more than 10 years of practical experience in related research fields. In particular, a number of technologies in multi-modal and semantic search have been used by Alibaba and the industry. He has published more than 20 papers in top international conferences and is a reviewer of top international conferences in a number of areas.

Dr. Gao introduced the application of multimodal technology used by his team in commodity category identification and category analysis, especially introduced Tensor-based Clustering, Cross-lingual sentiment learning and Variance-Reduced learning methods that were originally created by his team and have been widely used in the field of e-commerce.

In the second half of the speech, Dr. Gao introduced Alibaba's development prospects in the field of technology in detail, and looked forward to have more in-depth university –industry cooperation with FBM in the future.

The audience was incredibly captivated by Dr. Gao’s presentation. The audience raised quite a few questions in the Q&A session, Dr. Gao answered those questions patiently.