new BoD member Liang Peng
Created by: rickoco
Liang Peng is Vice President, head of IC-Lab and head of HMS Ecosystem Development in Futurewei Technologies. In this role, Liang leads R&D, ecosystem development in IC design, and HMS ecosystem development. He has a professional career in the semiconductor industry for 20+ years in many Silicon Valley companies including Nvidia, Intel, Rambus. He has played leading roles in technology and product development as well as strategy planning and partnership from mobile to cloud at chip and system level on GPU, CPU, video processor, memory and SOC etc. His early pioneer work and invention at Nvidia on pixel shader architecture is an industry milestone for GPU, setting the foundation for programmable shading, massive parallel computing as well as convolutional neural network for deep learning with GPU. He is also advisor and former Chairman and President of CASPA (2012-13). Liang has a B.S. in Astrophysics from Peking University, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.