Business Development / Amazon
Timothy has 10+ years of industry experience in technical sales, business development, and product management focus on machine learning and cloud computing. He led multiple product developments, executions, and launches ranging from $10M to $100M run rates. Timothy is passionate about learning and building new products and a believer in giving back to the community. On a personal note, Timothy is a happy father and a family man who still tries to be better in both. He is also a big fan of college football and loves skiing and scuba diving.
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Data Science & Product Analysis / Facebook
Nina Tsai has 20+ years of industry experience in Data Science and Analytics fields. She is currently a product analytics manager at Facebook, responsible for Ads product and operations. Prior to Facebook, she held positions at eBay, Safeway, CVS, and a startup, to drive business success through the use of data and analytics. Nina is very passionate about mentoring young professionals. She is the lean-in circle lead for Facebook diversity programs, and advocates for women in technology.
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Machine Learning in Software & Hardware / Samsung Research
For the past decade, Dr. Daniel Ding is a tech lead and passionate AI practitioner in the crossfire of cutting edge software and hardware design. From microprocessors to SaaS, he contributed to and led projects that impact the design, analysis and optimization of high-end computing systemss. Inspired by the 2020 global pandemic and educators around the world, Daniel has found a new passion to give back to the community and prepare the young generation for the future job market. Daniel received his PhD degree in ECE at the University of Texas at Austin and has authored/co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, including best paper awards and the highly prestigious ACM SIGDA Best PhD Dissertation Award in 2011.
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Civil & Transportation Engineering / BKF Engineers
Kedi Mei has 16+ years of experience in the Traffic Engineering field. She is currently a senior project engineer at BKF Engineers. She has managed numerous public transportation projects, as well as private development projects within the bay area and southern California. Some of the projects include BART extension in Fremont, VTA light rail extension in San Jose, Facebook campus, Gerald Desmond Bridge in Long Beach, and various highway improvement projects. Kedi is passionate to provide support by sharing her experiences to young engineers. She was one of the mentors in BKF Engineers’ Women in Engineering Resource Group. Outside of work, she is one of the spiritual parents at Young Adult Fellowship at her home church. She treasures her relationship with the young generation and enjoys sharing her life experiences to them.
UX/UI & Visual Design / Enterprise Software
Liju Huang was a Sr. Visual Media Designer on an Enterprise Learning Organization of a human resources management software and services industry for 25+ years. Liju has been the lead designer in the areas of user interface and interaction design for many micro-learning templates, websites, menus, and learning management systems. Liju’s expertise is to combine user experience, brand, business and functional requirements with concise visual design to different products, services and platforms.
Electronics & Optics / Amazon
Dr. Cheng is a Sr. Hardware Engineer in Amazon Lab126 with eight years of industry experience working on laser, LED and consumer electronics. He has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Dr. Cheng receives guidance from many great mentors in his career. In the spirit of giving back, he has been mentoring young people to explore their passion and develop positive attitudes toward work and life. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family as well as outdoor activities.
Corporate Debt Financing / Banking
Linda has over two decades experience in the financial services industry including branch operation, wealth management, and technology lending. Through her broad experiences, Linda has managed to fund over $600 million dollars loan transactions to companies in various industries including a $100 million syndication loan to a multi-billion eCommerce company as the Lead Agent. Currently Linda is the Director of a premium commercial bank with the exclusive focus on the United States and Greater China markets. Linda received her MBA from Santa Clara University with focus on Finance and Marketing.
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Machine Learning & Data Science / Expedia
Dr. Zan is a Sr. Manager of Data Science at Expedia Group. He is leading the Marketplace Optimization team working on pricing and monetization problems of the travel platform. Prior to the management role, he worked on a variety of machine learning and data science problems in the vacation rental marketplace, such as pricing optimization and revenue management, ranking system, marketing and sales. He got the PhD in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Machine Learning & Fraud Detection / Facebook
Dr. Xi has extensive experience in machine learning, AI infra and system design. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Riverside. He has been working in the industry for 10+ years, with domain knowledge in fraud/risk detection and ads integrity. He is now a tech lead in the business integrity team at Facebook. Before Facebook, he worked at Google for 7 years, building large scale ads policy review systems to classify Google search ads, display ads, mobile ads etc. Steve mentored many junior engineers and interns during his career, he has a passion and enjoys to see young professionals growing. He is also glad to share his work experience and life experience with mentees.
Network Testing & Automation / Intel
John has been in the network test industry for 15+ years, with primary focus on enterprise and data center network infrastructure tests. He has worked in Cisco Systems for 11 years where he has been doing software testing in switches, routers and POC (customer proof of concept) testing for the various chassis based platforms including Nexus and Catalyst platforms. John then worked at a startup company Barefoot Networks, where he tested cutting edge programmable data plane switches, as well as mentoring teammates with his all rounded networking expertise. Barefoot was then acquired by Intel in 2019. John has been passionate about automation to help on test coverage and improve efficiency on the test process.
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Semiconductor Device Physics / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Chiang is a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research interests include semiconductor device physics, microfabrication, and accelerators. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Davis. After graduation from UCD he worked in academia for 5 years. He also had 5+ years of industry experience before joining LLNL.
Embedded Software Architecture / Wireless Technology
Bindu Therthala has 25 years of experience in Software engineering and management across all stages of growth from small startups to large public companies. She is currently the Director of Software Engineering at ON Semiconductors through the acquisition of Wi-Fi technology leader Quantenna communications. Bindu is passionate about technology and values being part of purpose-driven teams. She has been a key contributor at Packet Engines/Alcatel, Mesh Networks/Motorola, Tropos Networks/ABB Wireless, Meru Networks/Fortinet, and Atheros Communications/Qualcomm. She enjoys reading, traveling, volunteering and Zen meditation.
Network Infrastructure / Wireless Technology
Dr. Paul Petrus is the CTO of Radar, a startup company working on inventory location for
retail and other
industries. He is leading the product development and product strategy. Paul is a
wireless industry
veteran with more than 25 years of experience in product development and has shipped
products worth
more than $1B. Prior to joining RadaR, he was the Vice President of Engineering at
Ruckus Networks,
where he led the LTE Small Cells product development. This product is now deployed in a
variety of
Enterprises like malls, MDUs and K-12 schools. Prior to that, Paul held several senior
engineering
positions in semiconductor companies like Qualcomm and Atheros. The products he
developed have
gone into Xbox360 controller, Macbook and other laptops.
Paul received his
Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He has authored more
than 20 IEEE papers and he is also an inventor of more than 30 patents.
He is married and father of two teenage boys. He loves to sing and cook.