University of California (UCSB) – PhD of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Industrial working experiences include: Internet Systems, AT&T Bell Labs, Amdahl (Supercomputer Div.), Cadence…etc. Professor of CUHK during 1996~2014, and Founder of Easy-Logic Tech. Ltd in 2013. Led team of phD students to world champion winning streaks in ICCAD contests (2012~2014, 2021). Inventor of “Orthogonal Greedy Coupling NP-solver” and “Detector and Eliminator for Hardware Trojan”(USA/China patented).

Dr. Xing WEI received both his bachelor and master degree from Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University and his PhD in Computer Engineering from CUHK; he has entered into computer science industry since 10-year-old, wining Youth Olympic champions in information computing for several times. His team also won ICCAD CAD contest champions from 2012 to 2014.

Dr. TK Lam received his PhD in Computer Engineering from CUHK. He was a lecturer in CUHK who was responsible for training new generations of computer and electronic engineers. He has been working in the EDA field for many years. Research areas such as logic synthesis, ECO and SAT are what he likes to explore most. Besides EDA tools, he also develops AI software. He has his own mini neural network framework. Applying AI to Boolean logic is one of his current dreams.

Dr. Yi DIAO received his bachelor degree in Computer Science from Fudan University, master degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University and his PhD in Computer Engineering from CUHK. His team also won ICCAD CAD contest champions from 2012 to 2014.

Graduated from the Department of Engineering Physics and the Department of Modern Applied Physics of Tsinghua University. He has more than 30 years of experience in sales and marketing in EDA industry. He has worked for Synopsys as the Sales VP of mainland China market and Empyrean as the Sales VP. During his tenure, he successfully increased the annual sales of Empyrean from a million level to over 100 million level.

Ms. Lin Ding received her master degree in Biomedical and Biochemical Science and MBA degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has 8+ years working experience in Fortune 500 companies and international Venture Capital Firm in mainland China and Hong Kong, specialized in internal risk control and stat-up operation.