Fei Sha is currently a research scientist at Google Research, where he leads a team of scientists and engineers working on scientific machine learning with a specific application focus towards AI for Weather and Climate. He was a full professor and the Zohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California. His primary research interests are machine learning and its application to various AI problems: speech and language processing, computer vision, robotics and recently scientific computing, dynamical systems, weather forecast and climate modeling. Dr. Sha was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2013, and also won an Army Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2012. He has a Ph.D in Computer and Information Science from University of Pennsylvania and B.Sc and M.Sc from Southeast University (Nanjing, China).