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A Journey from Academic to Entrepreneur

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A Journey from Academic to Entrepreneur

Date:

9 Sep 2016

Time:

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Venue:

LT4, 2/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park (Y.I.A.P.), CUHK (University Station – Exit D)

Speaker(s):

Dr. Sunny SIU; Chief Strategy Officer, ProphetStor Data Services Inc. (Ex-Managing Director (Greater China), Broadcom; Ex-President / General Manager (Asia Pacific), NetLogic Microsystems ; Ex-Co-founder / President (Asia Pacific), RMI Corporation)

Biography of Speaker:

Dr. Sunny SIU is Chief Strategy Officer and President of Asia Pacific at ProphetStor, a company with leading software defined storage solutions. Dr. Siu was previously a co-founder and President of Asia Pacific at RMI Corporation, a leader in multi-core processor technologies, which was acquired by NetLogic Microsystems (Nasdaq: NETL) in 2009, and became NETL’s President and General Manager of Asia Pacific from 2009 to 2012. He joined Broadcom as Managing Director for Greater China of the Processors and Wireless Infrastructure BU through Broadcom’s US$3.7B acquisition of NETL in 2012.Dr. Siu holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, a B.E. (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from Cooper Union, and a B.S. (summa cum laude) in mathematics and computer science from New York University. Dr. Siu was formerly an endowed-chair associate professor at MIT, and the founding research director of MIT Auto-ID Center that pioneered research on Internet-of-Things (IoT). Prior to MIT, Dr. Siu was a distinguished assistant professor at UC Irvine. He was a recipient of the US National Science Foundation Young Investigator Awards and best paper awards from IEEE and SPIE for his research on networking and distributed systems.

Admission:
Enquiries:

Dr. Stephen Lam, stephen@cuhk.edu.hk, +852 3943 9398
Dr. Ken Chow, kenchow@cuhk.edu.hk, +852 3943 1453

Synopsis of Lecture:

The Office of Research and Knowledge Transfer Services (ORKTS) would like to cordially invite you to the captioned event on 9th Sep 2016 (Fri). Our speaker, Dr. Sunny SIU, CSO form the ProphetStor Data Services Inc, will be sharing his experiences in transitioning from academia to building technology startups, his views on latest IT technology trends and how they will impact industries such as healthcare and finance. The event is open to all CUHK staffs / students / alumni and from outside CUHK. But RSVP to the event is highly recommended due to limited seats.