Edward Wei

Edward has a distinguished track record with over 20 years of leadership in the technology development, organic growth hacking, fabless IC design, and computer networking industries. Currently, Edward is co-chairing Emerging AI Processor SIG of AITA alliance and develops disruptive architectures for future distributed DNN applications. For the last ten years he has been a senior adviser to the Office of the President, at Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Edward also served as an adviser to several startups on a pro bono basis and helped them created sustainable growth engines and business.

Prior to 2000, Edward was a serial entrepreneur and founded/cofounded several companies. He later joined Realtek to help create and enhance their SoC technology and internetworking business. His expertise encompasses semiconductor physics, hardware/software co-design, growth hacking, viral marketing, and artificial intelligence. He owns over 20 patents and has published over 30 technical articles.

Edward earned an M.S degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California in 1990.