KNERON - Key Persons
Albert Liu, Kneron's founder and CEO. After graduating from the Taiwan National Cheng Kung University, he got the scholarships from Raytheon and the University of California to join the UC Berkeley/UCLA/UCSD research programs, and then got his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Before establishing Kneron in San Diego in 2015, He has worked in R&D and management positions in Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics R&D centre, MStar and Wireless Information.
Albert has been invited to give lectures of computer vision technology and artificial intelligence at the University of California, as well as to be a technical reviewer for many internationally renowned academic journals. In addition, Albert owned more than 30 international patents in the areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision and image processing. He has published more than 70 papers in major international journals and received the IEEE Darlington Award and IEEE CTSoc Awards.
Job Titles:
- Special Assistant to the CEO
Eddy has obtained his MBA at Tamkang University. He was the COO for Advanced Power Electronics and served as Vice President of Operations at Young Fast Optoelectronics.
Wintek Chair and Distinguished Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducts research in areas of high-performance & mixed-signal system-on-chip designs for radio, radar, imaging, interconnect and spectrometer systems from RF to terahertz frequency ranges. He is also the Director of UCLA's High Speed Electronics Laboratory.
Formerly he was the President of National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2015-2019), and the Assistant Director & Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory at Rockwell International Science Center, Thousand Oaks, California (1983-1997).
He has received numerous awards and recognition, including:
IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal
(2023)
IEEE Darlington Award
(2021)
JJ Thomson Medal for Electronics
(IET, 2017)
Fellow, US National Academy of Inventors (2015)
Academician, Academia Sinica
(2012)
Member, US National Academy of Engineering (2008)
David Sarnoff Award, (IEEE, 2006)
Fellow, IEEE (1996)
Hsiang-Tsun Li previously worked in Qualcomm for 17 years. He also served as the Vice President of Spreadtrum, held R&D and managerial positions at Lucent Technologies, and was a technical manager of Huawei and Vivo. In the fields of multimedia, image processing, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, he has obtained over 70 international patents and published many papers in major international journals.
Jimmy has 30+ years of experience in financial management, capital market management as well as executing M&A activities from the corporate side. In his previous CFO appointments, Jimmy took two companies public in the USA, including Daqo New Energy (NYSE: DQ) in 2010 and China Online Education Group (NYSE: COE) in 2016. He was also instrumental in the IPO of SMIC (NYSE:SMI) in 2004. Jimmy is also a certified public accountant in the USA.
Roger obtained a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has 20+ years of semiconductor and AI industry experience. Roger was the former VP for R&D in Sentelic Corp, and also served as COO in Milkyway Silicon Technology.