Yong Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, in 2014. He is currently a Distinguished Researcher with Huawei Technologies Canada, Burnaby, BC, Canada and leading the Big Data and Intelligence Platform Lab, Vancouver Research Center. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. His research works have been published in top-tier journals and conferences. His research interests include large-scale numerical optimization and machine learning.