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Email: tc@tsuchanglee.com
Phone: +1-650-690-8162
SUMMARY
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Innovative in coming up with new solutions for challenging problems
Capable to enable Organization/Company Building, Strategy/Technology/Product/Market/ Business
Development for Startups/Turnarounds/Established Companies with international operations; Experienced in
JV/Partnership and Technology/IP Litigation; Passionate in Charity and Social Services
Cross-disciplinary integrator with knowledge & hand on experience covering a broad spectrum of areas
including Cloud Services, Software, Systems, ICs, Devices & Sensors, Process Test & Diagnosis
INTERESTS
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Strategy / Knowledge / Technology / Service / Product / Market / Business / Organization Development
Key Words: Crowd Sourcing by Heart Touching, Neural Networks / AI, Man-Machine Interface, Pattern
Recognition, Adaptive Systems, Video / Data Compression, Cloud Computing / SaaS, Communication
Networks, CAD / CAM, IC Design, Mobile & Security/Surveillance Systems, Memory & Storage Systems
EDUCATION
 Ph.D. in EE, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
 Thesis: Structure Level Adaptation for Artificial Neural Networks: Theory, Applications, and Implementations
 Area of Study: Neural Net / AI, DSP, System Arch./Circuit/Device Physics/Process Test & Diagnosis for ICs
EXPERIENCES
1. Business Advisor, 2019~Present
Offering advisory services for Strategy / Technology / Product / Market / Business Planning & Development
2. Founding Chair, YuanYi Network (“YuanYi”,a California 501(c)(3) non-profit organization), 2012~Present
a. Set up YuanYi as a Crowd Sourcing Platform for Charity
b. Partnering with grass root NGOs and local governments to produce YuanYi’s debuting event “Cloud
Charity Festival 2012”, delivering gifts to 120 schools in the poorest region in Taiwan; more than 20,000
school kids’ Dreams Fulfilled with support from California and Taiwan
c. Presented YuanYi Social Entrepreneur Award at 2013 Asia Pacific Cities Summit with regional leaders
from 120 cities all over the world
d. Promoting & sharing through cloud media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, DingDingTV, ChinaTV.us, etc.
3. Managing Director, Netvinci, Inc., 2011~2012
a. Provided BP concept proposal for this venture invested by Etron; Recruited and lead team to develop
machine vision based gesture control algorithms for gesture control on smart clients (TV, mobile, etc.)
b. Conceptualized a network based system integration platform for multiple sensors & SiPs integration
4. Strategy Advisor / Chief Strategy Officer, Etron Corporation (“Etron”, public listed in Taiwan), 2009~2012
a. Advised President & CEO of this fabless IC company in setting the strategic growth plan following
“Experience Economy” with enabling SoC / SiP products & services; Lined up partners to grow business
b. Established Life series product theme (LifeSense, LifeRecall, LifeConnect, LifeMemory) as corner stones
to support Interconnected Life Experience. Initiated 3D vision SiP project for man-machine interface.
c. Assisted GSA (Global Semiconductor Alliance) Chairman and attended BOD meetings and forums,
networking with CEOs and leaders related to semiconductor industry (with US$300B annual sales)
5. Managing Director, ViVoDa Communications (“ViVoDa”), 2005~2008
a. Set up the organization in China & Hong Kong to develop 3G mobile video surveillance systems,
including central control server and client software running on PC, PDA, and cellular phones.
b. Opened up new markets and pioneered into many new wireless WAN based remote monitoring
applications: e.g., environment monitoring and control, police & special vehicle monitoring, etc.
6. President / CEO / Board Member, ViCHIP Corporation (“ViCHIP”), 2003~2004
a. This is a JV between NPL and a large overseas industry group. Established offshore headquarters &
built international organization from ground up. Lead the team to develop a high performance, high
quality video codec IC for portable media devices, such as multimedia cellular phones. Delivered
breakthrough results with limited budget and resource, and within very tight project schedule.
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b. Lead the development of innovative motion estimation (ME) search algorithm and chip architecture which
resulted in superior video coding quality and performance (achieved similar quality as ITU-H.264 based
on only ISO-MPEG4 Part 2 standard, and accomplished more than 100X speed up in performance
compared with full ME search algorithm with similar quality).
c. The JV partner breached the JV agreement & took aggressive actions to seize the technology after
verifying the breakthrough results, leading into international lawsuits. I was forced to fight for NPL and
myself against the large overseas industry group, to defend our property right and my reputation.
Through 3.5 years of fighting with limited resources, after winning the legal battle in the country that JV
partner situated, we successfully settled the case and obtained rights into the IPs developed in this JV.
7. Founding President & CEO, NeoParadigm Labs, Inc. (“NPL”), 1996~2003
a. Founded the company with pioneering vision on IP based SoC design; promoted new design paradigm
b. Built the organization from scratch, including building technical team, set up product manufacturing
supply chain, set up sales / distribution channels
c. Set up operations in China, Taiwan, and Japan for business development and customers support.
d. Profitable through design services from the start, built up business from scratch to US$20M+, and
increased the US$40K seed investment value to US$120M+ in less than two years
e. Selected by Upside magazine as Upside 100 (only 7 companies in semiconductor related fields were
selected)
f. Lead a group of more than 100 experienced technical staff (including close to 40 Ph.D.’s) to develop
more than 20 System Level ICs (SLIC), to name a few pioneering examples: (1) H.263 video codec IC;
(2) Mixed Signal LCD display controller IC; (3) Fast Ethernet Switch Controller IC; (4) CMOS image
sensors;(5) Digital still image camera controller IC
g. Developed SLIC based application specific embedded systems to support the various system
applications of NPL’s system level IC products as demonstrated in NPL’s video phone solution.
h. The IPs originated from NPL has enabled system & IC products with billions of dollars value globally.
8. CTO / VP of Engineering / President of SVR-AP, Silvar-Lisco / Silicon Valley Research (“SVR”), 1994~1996
a. Joined the “Rescue E-Team” of SVR (a NASDAQ listed IC CAD software company); pivotal for turning
around this troubled company to increase the revenue 3X and market cap 25X within 18 months.
b. Served first as its VP Engineering / CTO, and later as founding President of Asia Pacific region.
c. Salvaged the legacy products & technology
d. Established new product strategy and developed new technology and products
e. Established the Technical Advisory Board (TAB) by inviting world known academic leaders as the think
tank for the company
f. Established the organization and developed business from ground up in the Asia Pacific region
g. Presented to the investors, helped the company through private placements and the 2nd public offering
and raised capitals
9. R&D Manager / Member of Consulting Staff / Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Cadence Design Systems
(“CDNS”), 1990~1994
a. Served as R&D Manager and S/W developer for this EDA Software Company listed in NASDAQ.
b. Developed breakthrough technologies to enable CDNS to maintain its leading position against up-rising
new competitors to secure its leadership position in the multi-billion dollar EDA business
c. Created breakthrough innovation in: (1) Ultra performance Placement & Route algorithm to speed up the
turn-around time 100X; (2) Block based floor planning algorithm to reduce the die size by 30% in
average; (3) Traffic congestion based IC floor plan adjustment algorithm to optimize automated routing
completing rate; (4) Layout driven logic optimization to feedback physical design information to optimize
the logic designs to drastically enhance the timing and power performance.
10. Research Staff Member, Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation (“Ford”), 1988~1990
Developed algorithms/architectures/protocols for reconfigurable distributed signal processing systems
INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY
Manifested in books, papers, lectures, speech, and patents. The followings are a few selected examples:
1. Book: Structure Level Adaptation for Artificial Neural Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers (now SpringerVerlag), sets a theoretical foundation for self-organizing adaptive networks which can be applied to cloud
service networks (1991)
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2. Lecture: Heart Touching Enterprise, given for Chinese Women Entrepreneur Forum at Legislative Yuan
(Congress), Taipei, Taiwan (2013)
3. Lecture: “Vision for IT Industry”, given at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China (2009)
4. Lecture: Future Computing - A Non-Computing Perspective, given at Taiwan University, Taipei (2007)
5. Speech: Igniting Dream Building Fever for Societies, at YuanYi Social Entrepreneur Award ceremony in 9th
Asia Pacific Cities Summit, Taiwan (2013)
6. Speech: “Emerging Technologies: Tackling Complexity”, in Designing Multi-Core SoC Platforms, given as
panelist in 12th SoC Conference, Irvine, California (2011)
7. Paper: A Multiple-agent Context-aware Service Platform in a Smart Space, Journal of Computers, April
(2007)
8. Paper: Interconnected Multimedia, MACRO Opportunities, MICRO Challenges, presented at Great Hall of
the People, Beijing, China, for 7th Sino-American Technology and Engineering Conference (2006)
9. Paper: Creating Links to the Next Generation Logic (cover story), Electronic Engineer, March (1998)
10. Paper: A New Line in IC Design, pp.52-58, IEEE Spectrum, March (1997)
11. Paper: A Bounded 2D Contour Searching Algorithm for Floorplan Design with Arbitrarily Shaped Rectilinear
and Soft Modules (nominated of best paper award), Proc. 30th ACM/IEEE DAC, pp.525-530 (1993)
12. Paper: Adaptive Vector Quantization Using a Self-Development Neural Network, IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications, pp.1458-1471, Oct. (1990)
13. Paper: Implementing a Self-Development Neural Network using Doubly-Linked Lists, IEEE COMPSAC(1989)
14. Paper: The use of device models for IC process diagnosis, Research on manufacturing science and
technology for VLSI, Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, SRC86-11-106, pp.208-221 (1987)
15. Patent: Object-based Information Storage, Search, and Mining System, US20130170716A1 (2013)
16. Patent: Apparatus for Network based Modular Electronic Systems, US20130215069A1 (2013)
17. Patent: Integrated Circuit System, CN202534359U (2012)
18. Patent: Apparatus for adaptive multiple-dimensional signal seq. encoding / decoding, US7499491B2 (2009)
19. Patent: Adaptive Multiple Dimensional Signal Sequence Encoding / Decoding, US7471724B2 (2008)
20. Patent: Memory and array processor structure for multiple-dimensional signal processing,
US20040258147A1 (2004)
21. Patent: Scalable video encoding/storage/distribution/decoding for symmetrical multiple video processors,
US20030023982A1 (2003)
22. Patent: Virtual broad band communication through bundling of a group of circuit switching and package
switching channels, US20020174434A1 (2002)
23. Patent: Automatic Positioning of Relative Instances alone a Given Dimension, US6363518B1 (1996)
24. Patent: System and method for determining acceptable logic cell locations and generating a legal location
structure, US5818726A (1996)
25. Patent: Double sided placement of components on printed circuit board, US5481474A (1993)
26. Patent: Multiple Contour Searching Method and Apparatus for Circuit Building Block Placement,
US5363313A (1992)
RECOMMENDATIONS
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Bob Anderson (Founder & Chairman, KLA-Tencor Corporation, US)
Dr. Jerry Lee (CEO, Velogix; VP, Synopsys / Cadence, US)
Dr. Jason Cong (Chairman, Computer Science Dept., UCLA)
Dr. Andy Wang (Chairman, Industry Technology Investment Corporation (“ITIC”), Taiwan)
Dr. Joseph Goodman (Chairman, Electrical Engineering Dept., Stanford University)
Dr. Wen-Mei Hwu (Chair Professor, ECE Dept., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Dr. Lawrence Rauchwerger (Professor of CSE Dept., Texas A&M University)
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