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Agora introduced the appointment of Mr. Sheng (Shawn) Zhong as its Chief Expertise Officer, efficient instantly. Mr. Zhong has served as Agora’s Chief Scientist since January 2018 and together with his further position as Chief Expertise Officer, Mr. Zhong will likely be answerable for managing Agora’s international analysis and growth organisation and strengthening Agora’s know-how management.
Earlier than becoming a member of Agora, Mr. Zhong served because the chief govt officer of Hisense Microchip Firm and had held a number of senior technical roles at Broadcom Inc. and LSI Company.
Mr. Tony Zhao, founder, chairman and CEO of Agora, mentioned, “Since becoming a member of Agora as Chief Scientist greater than 4 years in the past, Shawn has performed a crucial position in driving our know-how innovation and development. The breadth and depth of Shawn’s experience in our business, coupled together with his confirmed observe report in managing complicated analysis and growth initiatives, will additional strengthen our international management in offering best-in-class real-time engagement APIs. On behalf of our board and the administration workforce, we’re delighted to have Shawn tackle further obligations as our Chief Expertise Officer.”
Mr. Zhong beforehand served because the chief govt officer of Hisense Microchip Firm from January 2015 to December 2017, and as its chief know-how officer from July 2012 to January 2015. Mr. Zhong was vice chairman of know-how at Huaya Microelectronics (which was acquired by Hisense) from August 2009 to July 2012, and earlier than Huaya, Mr. Zhong had beforehand held a number of technical roles at Broadcom Inc. from 1999 to 2009, the place he designed algorithms and architectures for a lot of generations of Broadcom chips for superior video processing.
Previous to Broadcom, he was a senior design engineer at LSI Company from 1997 to 1999 the place he was answerable for growing digital video processing algorithms. Mr. Zhong holds greater than 100 know-how patents, of which greater than 60 know-how patents are in america. He was a key member of Worldwide Organisation for Standardization (ISO)’s MPEG/JVT workforce, INCITS and IEEE, and has revealed greater than 30 papers within the subject of video processing and pc imaginative and prescient. Mr. Zhong obtained a bachelor’s diploma in arithmetic and PhD in utilized arithmetic from Peking College and was a post-doctorate analysis affiliate on the College of Maryland, Faculty Park from 1996 to 1997.
