Yanxia Lu is a Senior Research Manager for IDC China's Enterprise System and Software Research, focusing on Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI). She is responsible for Big Data information management platform as well as Big Data analytics and applications. Yanxia is also involved in AI technology and enterprise mobility, covering machine learning, semantic comprehension, speech recognition, and image identification.

Prior to joining IDC, Yanxia worked as a consultant at Jusfoun, where she was in charge of the industry consulting business. Her main responsibilities included working on Big Data industry consulting, offering guidance and advice for clients, and building the consulting team. She also provided strong support for strategy development for the whole company and other business units. Yanxia also worked in Founder Electronics' Big Data department as an analyst as well as at CNPC Research Institute as a consultant.

•             M.S. in Petroleum Geology from China University of Petroleum (Beijing)