Journey of an Explorer

What I have experienced all lead me to the field where I will be excellent!

That is what I have believed since my graduation from my first M.S. in Communication Engineering 10 years ago. That also has driven me to diverse positions and fields in the first decade of my career – from a software engineer, a product manager, to a data scientist and from the field of IoT to Big Data and AI.

Software Engineer for IoT (2012 ~ 2014)

Realtek

How are those invisible signals transmitted in the air? To pursue the answer to the question, I started my career as a software engineer for Wi-Fi Routers. I studied wireless protocols and validated the behaviors for 10+ SoC models to pass the certifications of Wi-Fi 4 and 5.

Product Manager for IoT, Analytics, and AI SaaS (2015 ~ 2020)

Synology

How a circuit board with chips becomes a consumer product with fancy shells? The desire to broadly explore the business of IoT drove me to become a software product manager for Wi-Fi routers. I planned various software features for RT1900ac and RT2600ac, with the latter ranked no.1 router by SmallNetBuilder.

Netgear

How could I plan a software roadmap based on numbers, instead of just feeling? That was my concern until I joined the company and acted as an engineering product manager in analytics. I designed 5+ projects to collect engineering and marketing data and extracted insights for the executives’ business decision-making.

Foxit Software

Big Data is not just extracting insights from BI reports, but it can be further integrated into products as an AI SaaS to help people directly. To realize that, I led a team to build a contract review automation service from scratch, iDox.ai.

Data Scientist at Duke University (2021 ~ Present)

Being a product manager in AI is not enough – I want to get my hands dirty. That motivates me to pursue my second M.S. in Data Science. Since then, I start to leverage my previous domain knowledge to make more business impact in diverse fields.

TeleSign

I applied Wi-Fi domain knowledge, Machine Learning skills, and product management mindset to validate a PoC project and proposed a new business line in IoT to the CTO.

2nd Order Solutions

I investigated the state-of-the-art explainable ML and presented the outcome in a way absorbable for the general audience in the financial credit advisory field.

The Journey still Goes On and On and On and On!

I am continuing leveraging my abilities to generate more values for the industry. If that also excites you, feel free to reach out! Perhaps we could achieve something different!