Boon-Lock Yeo

About Boon-Lock Yeo

Boon-Lock joined Android team in Jan 2018. Previously, he led Engineering and Product at Alphabet Access / Google Fiber. He returned to Silicon Valley in 2014 after 11 years in Shanghai. While in Shanghai, he headed Google engineering & research efforts in Greater China and co-led Google China operations. He joined Google in March 2007 and has played a key role growing Google’s Shanghai office, and had focused on R&D efforts in search and infrastructure for China and Asia.Before he joined Google, for 4 years, he was the GM of Intel Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd. and led R&D efforts for Intel and Intel software in China. At Intel, he oversaw the expansion of Intel R&D efforts in Shanghai from 200 to to over employees in 3 years. He received two Intel Achievement Awards - the highest Intel award recognizing outstanding accomplishments with significant business impacts - in 2006 and 2007 respectively for innovative products, and strategic enabling of system software that helped create China\'s BIOS industry. Prior to Intel China assignment, he was an entrepreneur at Silicon Valley and had founded a data storage technology startup. He has previously held R&D positions specializing in signal / video processing, data compression and multimedia search/indexing technologies at Intel Labs, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and AT & T Bell Labs. He received his Ph.D. in EE from Princeton University and BSEE from Purdue University.He was internationally recognized for his work on image/video processing, data storage and compression. He received an Transactions Best Paper Award in 1996, has published over 50 technical papers and holds 52 US patents. He had also contributed to fundamental technologies in wavelet-based lossless compression which were part of the standards. He co-authored a chapter on open source opportunities in China in the book \"Open Sources 2.0\"(published by O\'Reilly). He is an Fellow.

Experience

1. VP Engineering

   Google

   Mar 2007 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   1/2018 : Mountain View, California, USA.Joined Android team.4/2014-12/2017 : Mountain View, California, USA.Alphabet Access / Google Fiber: Led various efforts in wired and wireless access, focusing on automation, cloud based solutions and machine learning approaches. Most recently, led all of Engineering and Product.3/2007-3/2014: Shanghai, China.Roles:(1) Head Google engineering & research in Greater China,(2) co-lead Google China operations (together with head of sales) and (3) head Google SE Asia engineering. Strength areas: Excellent stakeholder management and very effective in getting things done in a fast paced and engineering driven culture of Google. Established trusting and collaborative relationships with teams at HQ and other sites. Leadership efforts include providing engineering & product oversight and driving country strategy, serving as the technical spokesperson for Google in China, being the key stabilizing force in the offices after Google’s announced “new approach to China” in Jan 2010, and working closely with executives in HQ to push & resolve complex topics around strategy in China. Established and oversaw scalable university program that reaches hundreds of universities in China for Google’s Android platform and beyond. Founded and led Google’s SE Asia engineering efforts.

Education

• Princeton University

  Ph.D.

  1992 — 1995

• Purdue University

  BSEE

  1989 — 1992

Skills

• Firmware
• Start-Ups
• R&D
• Internet
• Linux
• Cloud Computing
• Algorithms
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Storage
• China
• Product Management
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Video
• Image Processing
• Mobile Devices
• Electrical Engineering
• Entrepreneurship
• Strategy