【学术报告】Tsinghua SIST-UCGEC Green Tech Seminar

Time: 2008年11月19日上午9:00-12:30

Place: FIT大楼多功能厅

Organizer:大阳城国际娱乐官网大阳城国际娱乐官网(SIST)

Co-organizer:大阳城国际娱乐官网信息技术研究院(RIIT)

Sponser: US-CHINA GREEN ENERGY COUNCIL (UCGEC)

Co-chairs: Prof. Zhisheng Niu, Deputy Dean of SIST, Tsinghua University

Dr. Mike Zhang, Vice President, US-China Green Energy Council

Introduction:

Dr. Sehat Sutardja

Chairman, President and CEO, Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

Dr. Sehat Sutardja, one of Marvell’s co-founders, has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. since its inception and as Chairman of the Board since 1999. In addition, he serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, and as a Director of Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. While remaining deeply involved in the daily challenges of running a 5000 person company, Dr. Sutardja participates heavily in Marvell’s engineering efforts across analog, video processor, and microprocessor design while offering input across all of the company’s other product lines. His persistent drive to invent creative technologies has allowed him to achieve 78 patents to date and he is highly regarded as a leader in the design of semiconductors. Dr. Sutardja holds the IEEE’s Fellow Grade status—a prestigious distinction which is bestowed upon an individual with an extraordinary record of accomplishment in an IEEE field of interest. No more than one-tenth percent of the total IEEE voting membership is recognized annually with this designation. In 2006 Dr. Sutardja was recognized as the Inventor of the Year by the Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association and he holds Master of Science and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Paul Martin

Senior Director, Worldwide Channel Marketing, Enterprise

Western Digital

Paul Martin directs Western Digital’s worldwide channel marketing for WD’s enterprise business unit.

Mr. Martin began working for WD in 1993 as a field engineer. With more than 20 years of experience in engineering, sales and technical marketing, Mr. Martin served WD as senior director of worldwide field engineering and technical sales before he took on the worldwide channel marketing role for enterprise.

Mr. Martin is responsible for evangelizing WD’s technical advantages in enterprise products to regional OEM’s and distributors around the world. He leads WD’s initiative to be the pioneer and storage leader in the Green IT industry and engage with WD’s 3rd party storage partners to ensure WD enterprise products have the best-in-class attributes to meet the customer’s needs.

Previously, Martin worked in engineering roles for companies such as Texas Instruments, Memorex and as a consultant.

Martin earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Oklahoma State University.

James M. Swartz

Chief Information Officer, Sybase, Inc.

As chief information officer, James Swartz is responsible for all of Sybase’s worldwide systems and information technology infrastructure, allocating and managing global IT resources including data centers, applications development and telecommunications. He has been with Sybase since 2000.

Previously, Mr. Swartz worked at SRI International, where he held the position of chief information officer. Before that, he was at Science Applications International Corporate, where he led the direction and maintenance of corporate information systems development, management and training of information technology and information system planning.

Mr. Swartz earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Muskingum College, and attended graduate school studying Russian Linguistics at Ohio State University.

Hans Wildenberg

Executive Vice President, Media Storage Division, Spansion

Hans Wildenberg is the executive president of Spansion’s Media Storage Division (MSD). He is responsible for expanding the presence of Spansion’s MirrorBit? and MirrorBit Quad technologies in digital media markets. Wildenberg brings over 25 years of experience in the wireless and semiconductor industries to his current role.

Wildenberg previously served as corporate vice president of Spansion’s Wireless Solutions Division in Japan where he was responsible for expanding Spansion’s market presence, driving business opportunities and satisfying customer requirements in Japan. Before that, Wildenberg was COO of Fairchild Semiconductor, overseeing the daily activities of Fairchild’s 9,500 employees and its global operations. As COO, Wildenberg focused on strategic planning, operations and business development and successfully managed all product lines, sales, manufacturing activities, quality, technology, logistics and planning for this global corporation.

Wildenberg also spent 16 years with Motorola Semiconductors Products Sector (SPS) where he held management and executive-level positions working in nearly all aspects of the company’s business including marketing, sales, operations and order fulfillment. His proactive work in all of these departments led to his promotion as corporate vice president and director of the Motorola SPS Order Fulfillment Organization where he successfully managed a global team of 23,000 employees, supporting a sales volume of $8 billion. Previous to this, having proven his ability to effectively implement a profitable global strategy, Wildenberg served as vice president and director of Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) Global Sales.

Wildenberg holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Frank Paniagua Jr.

CEO, Green Plug

Frank is the Founder and CEO of Green Plug, Inc. A two and one half year old technology company dedicated to fixing the AC to DC consumer charging experience and changing the world. As a serial entrepreneur, Frank has spent his entire career involved in start-ups.

Frank was the co-founder of the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) and was Vice President of Worldwide OEM Sales at RasterOps and VideoLogic (both companies executed successful IPO's), founder of KidWise LearningWare, co-founder of Eskape Labs and AutoNetworks and the president of IXMICRO. (EskapeLabs, and AutoNetworks were acquired.)

Frank has a history of success including 26+ years of "solution selling" into the industry's most respected PC and consumer electronic manufacturers (Apple, Compaq, Digital Equipment, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Sun and Sony). Frank's expertise is building and growing new ventures into successful companies.

Frank holds a BA degree from California State University Hayward.

Miriam Horn

Miriam Horn, now on staff at Environmental Defense Fund, has worked for the U.S. Forest Service and written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The New Republic. She was a senior editor at U.S. News and World Report, where she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. She is the author of Rebels in White Gloves; Coming of Age with Hillary’s Class—Wellesley ’69 (Times Books, 1999) and co-author, with Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp, of the New York Times Bestseller Earth: The Sequel; The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming (Norton, 2008). Horn is a graduate of Harvard University and studied environmental science at Columbia University. She lives in New York City with her husband, Columbia University Law professor Charles Sabel, and daughter Francesca.

Ruixi Yuan

Ruixi Yuan received B.S. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 1985, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1991. From 1991 to 2005, he conducted research in wireless and high speed communication in the United States. Dr. Yuan returned to Tsinghua University in 2005 and is currently a full professor at the Department of Automation. His current research focuses on network communications and complex system dynamics. Dr. Yuan is also a principal investigator in the Tsinghua-UTC Research Institute for Building Energy, Safety and Control Systems and leads a project to study the use of IT technologies to improve building energy efficiency and safety.

Dr. Yuan published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and is the inventors of 6 U.S. patents in the area of network communications. He also authored an Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series book “Virtual Private Networks – Technologies and Solutions.”