Feng Zhao

About Feng Zhao

I am Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University.I was a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures China (formerly known as Fidelity Growth Partners Asia) from 20••••24, and focused on investments in enterprise services.I was Chief Technology Officer at Haier and Vice President for its Advanced R&D and Smart Home business from 20••••19. Haier is a world leader in consumer appliances and smart home. I led the development of Haier U+ IoT Platform with a full-range of connected appliances and smart home solutions, and drove key industry interoperability initiatives (e.g, at OCF, CHEAA). U+ was recognized by top innovation awards in IoT at major industry forums: IFA Product Technical Innovation Award (Berlin, 2018) and CES Global Smart Appliance Award (Las Vegas, 2019).I was Deputy Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia 20••••15, where I oversaw multiple research areas including hardware computing, mobile and sensing, software analytics, systems, and wireless and networking. My own research has focused on networked embedded systems such as sensor networks, energy and resource management of distributed systems as in data centers and cloud computing, and mobile devices and mobility. I have also done work on parallel computing, fast N-body algorithms, machine recognition and diagnostics. Prior to Microsoft Research Asia, I was a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, where I founded and managed the Networked Embedded Computing Group. The group has developed the MSR sensor mote, tiny Web Service, SenseWeb and SensorMap, Data Center Genome, JouleMeter, and GAMPS data compression. I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and taught at Stanford University and Ohio State University. I was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC and founded PARC\'s research effort in sensor networks and distributed diagnostics. I served as founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, authored over 100 technical papers and books, including a book published by Morgan Kaufmann - Wireless Sensor Networks: An information processing approach, and have 50+ issued US patents. An ACM and Fellow, I received a Sloan Research Fellowship and NSF and ONR Young Investigator Awards. My work has been featured in news media such as BBC World News, BusinessWeek, and Technology Review.Full bio: https://baike.baidu.com/item//68•••97?fr=aladdin

Experience

1. Distinguished Visiting Professor

   Tsinghua University

   Jan 2021 — Present · Beijing, CN

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  1985 — 1987

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  BS, Electrical Engineering

  1980 — 1984

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  PhD, Computer Science

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Networking
• Distributed Systems
• Computer Science
• Data Mining
• Cloud Computing
• Machine Learning
• Algorithms
• Sensors
• Embedded Systems