JD.com Appoints Renowned Data Science Professor Peijie as Vice President to Lead Big Data and AI Initiatives

On January 5, 2018, JD.com announced that Professor Peijie, a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Big Data Science and Professor at Simon Fraser University, has joined the company as Vice President, reporting directly to Chairman and CEO Richard Liu. Professor Peijie will lead the Big Data Platform and Product Development Department, integrating JD.com's data collection, processing, and product development efforts while exploring advanced technologies in big data and machine learning.

Professor Peijie is a world-leading researcher in data science, big data, data mining, and database systems. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, currently serving as Chair of ACM SIGKDD. His contributions to data mining fundamentals, methods, and applications have earned him the prestigious ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award and IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award. With over 200 publications in top-tier journals and conferences since 2000, his work has been cited more than 76,000 times, with nearly 39,000 citations in the past five years.

Richard Liu emphasized that technology is central to JD.com's next twelve years of development, with the company aiming to build an