Qiang Yang is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer of WeBank and Chair Professor of CSE Department of Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech. He is the Conference Chair of AAAI-21, President of Hong Kong Society of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics(HKSAIR) , the President of Investment Technology League (ITL) and Open Islands Privacy-Computing Open-source Community, and former President of IJCAI (2017-2019). He is a fellow of AAAI, ACM, IEEE and AAAS. His research interests include transfer learning and federated learning. He is the founding EiC of two journals: IEEE Transactions on Big Data and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. His latest books are Transfer Learning, Federated Learning，Privacy-preserving Computing and Practicing Federated Learning.
Federated learning is an important intersection of AI, big data and privacy computing. How to make federated learning safe, trustworthy and efficient at the same time is the focus of future industry and research. In my lecture, I will systematically review the progress and challenges of AI and introduce federated learning as a secure distributed approach to AI modeling. I will then discuss several important research and application directions.