2018.12– Now Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (tbsi.berkeley.edu)

Co-Director of the RISC-V International Open-Source Laboratory (RIOS)

2017.2– Now Founder and CEO of OURS Technology Inc (www.ours-tech.com)

OURS is a VC-backed startup in Silicon Valley working on energy-efficient microprocessor designs with the open RISC-V instruction set and silicon photonics applications for self-driving cars and IoT. I lead a group of highly-motivated multinational engineers mostly Berkeley PhD graduates and industry chip design veterans. We have been successfully taping out multiple chips within the first year of funding.  OURS (睿思芯科) has been a leading company in promoting RISC-V in China.

2013.9–2017.2 Founding Engineer of Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG)

First chip designer hired by Pure

Flash Blade TM lead designer (founding member)

2017 AIconics Best Innovation award in AI Hardware (AI Summit 2017, San Francisco) ; customers  include Tesla, Mercedes F1 racing team, Riot Games.