Speakers

Gracia Wan Joined CEVA in Jan 2010 as China Country Manager leading CEVA sales and support team in China. Gracia has over 10 years experience in semiconductor industry and focus on SIP licensing business in recent 7 years. Prior to joining CEVA, she was China Country Manager at CommTone Solution Co., Ltd. representing multiple famous IP companies in China include InterDigital, Discretix, Comsys etc. Gracia holds an engineering degree from the Harbin Engineering University.

Barbara Yu, Joined CEVA in Jan 2011 as Taiwan Country Manager leading CEVA Taiwan support team. Barbara has over 12 years experiences in semiconductor industry and focus on SIP licensing business in recent 4 years. Prior to joining CEVA, she was Taiwan Country Manager in Tensilica (IP company) and Sr. Sales Manager in Magma Inc (EDA company) etc. Barbara holds a MBA degree from National Chiao-Tung University.

Ran Soffer serves as Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development. Mr. Soffer brings with him more than 20 years of senior management positions at startups through to Fortune 500 corporations. Prior to joining CEVA he served as the General Manager for the Microwave Products Division at Broadcom, responsible for all Microwave and Millimeter wave Baseband and RF solutions. Previous to this, Mr. Soffer held various management and engineering positions at Provigent, Metalink, Motorola, Redux and ECI. Mr. Soffer earned an M.B.A and an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology.

Moshe Sheier serves as CEVA’s Director of Strategic Marketing, overseeing DSP cores, application SW, and ecosystem management for Audio, Voice, sensing and IoT applications. He has twenty years of experience in the semiconductor IP and chip industry in both development and managerial roles. Prior to this position, Mr. Sheier has managed Xilinx Inc. partner program in EMEA, and before that he held several positions at CEVA as Director of Support and the VLSI Department Manager for CEVA’s DSP business unit as well as for DSP Group. He holds several patents in the area of DSP architectures, a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, and an M.B.A from the Open University of Israel.

Liran Bar serves as CEVA’s Director of Product Marketing, overseeing Imaging & Vision DSP core product line. Liran has more than fifteen years of experience in the imaging semiconductor industry. Prior to joining CEVA, Mr. Bar was Director of Product Marketing at Altair Semiconductor covering LTE wireless communications product line. Before that he served as a director of product marketing at different multidisciplinary companies specializing in DSP multimedia, CMOS image sensor and Image signal processing. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Ben-Gurion University.

Franz has more than 15 years of experience in the semiconductor IP area, specifically in the connectivity markets. He co-founded RivieraWaves in 2010 and lead the sales and marketing activities. In 4 years, he grew the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi IP business from zero to $4M. Before joining RivieraWaves, Franz has been the Product Marketing Manager at Wipro-NewLogic during 4 years, in charge of the Bluetooth IP portfolio. From 1999 to 2005, Franz held several positions of project leader, customer support manager, team leader and hardware design engineer at VLSI Technology, Philips Semiconductor, NewLogic and PLDA.

For the last 30 years, Mr. Gresset has been with systems and semiconductor companies working in the fields of signal processing, wireless modems as well as processor and system-on-a-chip architecture in various companies: Octasic, STMicroelectronics, Philips, VLSI Technology, Spectral Innovations and Thomson. He received his M.Eng from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité in Paris.

• Ph.D candidate, Department of International Business, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• MS, Department of Electrical, Computer & Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• BA, Department of Control Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
• Director, DIGITIMES Research
• Director, International News Center of DIGITIMES Inc.
• Manager, Telecommunication team, DIGITIMES Research
• Manager, Semiconductor team, DIGITIMES Research
• Engineer, UMC
• Custom research project (The developing trends of Chinese semiconductor Industry) for a Top 3 semiconductor equipment supplier
• Custom research project (The developing trends of the fabless industry in China, Taiwan and South Korea) for a Top 3 EDA vendor
• Planning project (Medium and long-team development plan for Zhang-Jiang Innopark) for Pudong New District, Shanghai

Henry Kuai is the Chief Analyst of Technology Hardware & Head of TMT Research at Orient Securities. He used to work in Everbright Securities, Flextronics (Asia Headquarters and Corporate Strategies), Reuters Asia Headquarters. He received the B.S. degree from University of Science & Technology of China and the M.S.(Management) degree from National University of Singapore.

Dr.Zhongding Jiang is an associate Professor of Software School, Fudan University. He obtained his B.S and Ph.D degrees from State Key Lab. of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University. He focuses on key problems of VR/AR technologies and systems. Systems he developed were adopted by World Expo 2010 and simulators of CRH and military plane.

Kevin Wang, Director C China Services, Electronics Supply Chain

At IHS, Kevin is responsible for managing IHS Technology research in China including creating and implementing industry surveys, evaluating the impact of market factors, building long and short-term market forecasts and authoring research reports. He is also responsible for conducting research on smart devices market, managing customized project and developing new products focused on China.

Prior to joining IHS iSuppli, Kevin worked as a sales and manager for semiconductor distributor and semiconductor vendors. Kevin also served as an editor at an international electronics magazine website where he wrote news and features about the electronics market in China.

Kevin earned his bachelor of science degree Information Science and Management from Xi’an JiaoTong University and IMBA from the University of Hong Kong. Kevin has made significant contributions to China market research, recognized and appreciated by other China Supply Chain Industry experts.

Brodmann17’s patented deep learning technology enables computer-vision for edge devices. The use cases are tremendous in scope and enable new areas and platforms, such as augmented reality, robotics, home security, smart cities, and autonomous vehicles, for the first time to deploy real-time high-performance, hardware-agnostic, video analysis at 5% of the computing cost or in turn to produce same detection abilities with low cost, low energy consumption processors.

Shen Bo is now the Founder & CTO of Artosyn; He received the BS, MS and Ph.D. degree from Fudan university during 1991 to 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he was an associate professor of E.E department in Fudan university. From 2000 to 2005, he was the founder and GM of Shanghai microscience technology Ltd, which was acquired by Trident in 2005. From 2008 to 2010, he was the chairman and CTO of Shanghai Sifond microelectronics Ltd., which was acquired by Novatek in 2010.

Robert Schrager is director of sales and marketing for Alango Technologies. Alango’s mission is to improve voice communication between people; and communication between person and machine. Robert enjoys communicating with customers and partners to make this happen.

Prior to Alango Robert has served in management positions as VP sales for Toyocom and director of product marketing for Epson Electronics.  A 20+ year career managing technical development cycles, executing on customer and partner engagements, and concurrently directing the corporate marketing direction and product strategy.

Chief Technology Officer Zhang Yiming, GAIR2016 Pioneer 100 Entrepreneurial leader, graduated from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, study under the well-known expert in the field of inertia navigation technology Feng Peide. SLAM technical experts, published a number of related areas of the paper, build robot passive navigation system that integrated VSLAM and exploration, navigation, positioning, obstacle avoidance, path planning technologies

Dr. Wang Zibin, got his PhD degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong. He conducted research work in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence for over 10 years. He was a founding member of Image & Visual Computing Lab, Lenovo Hong Kong Research. He participated into the R&D project of the first generation vision interaction module for big screen pad, he was in charge of one AI project in order to build an intelligent multi-module interaction system, he also contribute to several camera features for Lenovo smartphone. He is now working as product director of SenseTime.

Guanghui Fan has over 10 years’ experience in Imaging DSP design, project management and company operation. He has served in ArcSoft RD center for more than 13 years, and served as Senior Product Manager. Guanghui Fan is graduated from Hangzhou DIANZI University with M.S. degrees in the field of Computer Application.

Feng Chen joined Rockchip in 2008 and has been serving as Chief Marketing Officer since then. Rockchip is an innovative and pragmatic integrated circuit design company, providing professional chip solutions for intelligent cellphone, tablet computer, phablet, TV box, on-board navigation, IoT and multi-media audio, endowed the blue ribbon of China Chip for eight in row. Prior to joining Rockchip, Mr. Chen held Senior Director positions at SMIC. Mr. Chen holds BS degrees in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University

Currently I am the Senior Manager of RF System-on-Chip design, Mixed Signal Systems IC Technology Division at ASTRI. I have 17 years of R&D experience in developing RISC MPU, SIM card chip, Radio Frequency (RF), analog/mixed-signal and wireless system level chips. I joined ASTRI in May 2008 and have led team completed a number of R&D projects including 4G/LTE RF transceiver, digital TV tuner, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) SoC, ZigBee SoC, sub-GHz GFSK/FSK SoC and Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) RF transceiver and SoC.

Before joining ASTRI, I worked at Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor and Beijing Huahong Integrated-Circuit Co., Ltd.

Charng Lee held several positions in product planning, marketing, and customer support for imaging and video products with Sunplus Technology and Subsidiaries since 2000 and iCatch Technology since 2015. He was with ITRI DTV/STB technology development project for system architecture design, technical specification, and market promotion since 1993.

• Doctor’s Degree of AI in Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Algorithm Leader in Wisenut
• Senior Algorithm Expert & Leader in Alibaba Beijing Research Center

• Ph.D, Physics in KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• Work for LGE from 2000
• Core tech development for Near field recording tech.
• Solution development for Virtual input device (using IR camera)
• Solution development for 3D camera tech (Structured light, Active stereo, Time of flight)

Natalie Gutwetter serves as INUITIVE’s Director of Product Management. INUITIVE optimizes consumer experiences and enhances competitive advantages in the areas of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR/MR), Drones, Robots, Automotive and other, with its unique multicore SoC, which combines Computer Vision, Depth Sensing and AI. Prior to joining INUITIVE, Natalie held senior product and marketing positions at leading multidisciplinary companies in the fields of semiconductors and consumer electronics. Natalie holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tel-Aviv University, and an M.B.A from the Academic College of Management.

– Director of research department, Cyberon, 2002 ~ . Leaded the team to develop command recognition solutions of 30+ languages for embedded system.

– Senior enginner and software manager, Applied Speech Technologies (the first speech software company in Taiwan), 1998  ~ 2002. Joined the development of the first Mandarin dictation application.

– Software engineer, Acer, 1997 ~ 1998. Entered the field of speech technology.

– Alex Liou received his master’s degree in Computer Science & Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1995.

Graduated from Imperial College London, employed by Inria, focused on machine vision and machine learning research for years, participated in several machine vision research project in France, German, UK and other European countries.

Founded Evomotion in 2015, which focuses on consumer-oriented machine vision hardware solutions, accelerating products delivery with latest machine vision technology for manufacturers, ODMs and OEMs.

Founder & CEO of Pi Software Technology Co., Ltd., he graduated from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology，major in Electronic Engineering (EE) also with over 10 years experience of algorithm development and productization in image recognition. Pi Soft was founded in 2012, the company has experienced rapid growth in the past 5 years.

At present, Pi Softtech has launched industry-outstanding SDK products in the field of panoramic +AI and received much favourable comment from IC companies and solution providers. Pi Soft was known as a leading provider of panoramic & 3D solutions within the industry. Pi Soft established a partnership with CEVA and realized binocular panoramic stitching SDK，which can be integrated into the product system simply to ensure a fast and stable shipment.based on CEVA-XM4 platform to achieve real-time high frame rate image stitching.

In addition to panorama field, Pi Soft will also provide more algorithmic IP in the AI field to support IC companies and their solution providers to creat better intellectual camera products in the short future.

Tony Li,now serving Shanghai Freqchip, keeps hoping the great development of domain semiconductor industry. He is familiar with consumer electronics, communication electronics, small home appliance kits and electronic toys, etc. He likes challenging new market based on his solid technical background, and also is adept at getting the new market share. Now he is focus on each hit point of IoT.

Marshell Liang graduated from the XIDIAN University in 2003, obtained a master’s degree.
Since 2003, he has been working in ZTE Corporation engaged in communication hardware technology, logic and chip design, technology and management. He is currently the VP of wireless terminal product line of ZTE Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., responsible for Chip product of wireless terminal, IoT, etc., including marketing, planning, R&D and management.