WORK EXPERIENCE:

·         Aug. 2007 – present, Hewlett Packard Company, Senior Vice President of Research, and Director HP Labs, the company's central research organization. In these roles, he helps to chart technical strategies for the company, and he heads HP Labs, which has seven locations worldwide.

·         Aug. 2004-present, University of Illinois at Chicago, Dean, College of Engineering. and UIC Distinguished Professor.  Responsible for six academic departments, 115 faculty, 1650 undergraduates, 900 graduate students.

·         August 2003-present, BINACHIP, Inc, Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist. Responsible for providing technical leadership for the company.

·         1998 - 2001, and 2002-2004, Northwestern University, Chairman and Walter Murphy Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering. Responsible for a department with 31 faculty, 120 graduate students, 250 undergraduate students; Instrumental in developing some novel undergraduate curriculum revisions, strong industrial interactions, and collaborative research funding.

·         1996 - present, Northwestern University, Director, Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing. Responsible for building a center with 12 faculty, being a principal investigator of five large research projects with more than $8 million in funding from DARPA, NSF, NASA, DOE, and others.

·         July 2002 – June 2004, AccelChip, Inc, Founder and Chief Scientist. Responsible for providing technical leadership for the company.

·         July 2000 - June 2002, AccelChip, Inc., Founder, President and CEO. Responsible for founding the company, raising $2.3 million in Venture Capital funding, hiring a top management team, growing the company to about 25 employees, developing the first product AccelFPGA, and generating more than $800,000 in revenue.

·         1994-1996, University of Illinois, Director, Computational Science and Engineering. Responsible for building a CSE graduate program in 10 engineering departments setting up a CSE lab, and coordinating the writing of several large research proposals.

·         1993-1996, University of Illinois, Professor, Electrical and Computer Eng, Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory. Supervised more than 25 Ph.D. and 20 M.S. students, and had four large research projects.

·         1989-1993, University of Illinois, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engg. Research Associate Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory.

·         1985-1989, University of Illinois, Assistant Professor.

 

 

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