Dr. Bob C. Liang just assumed the position of General Manager & Chief Research Officerof Intel Software and ServicesGroup in PRC. His responsibility includesworking with Chinese academics to cultivate next generation technical leaders creating new technology and businesses for the future compute environment.  

In the last 10 years, he served as director of the Architecture Research Lab in the Microprocessor Technology Labs of Intel Corporate Technology Group. The Lab explores emerging scalable applications as workloads for the design of future many core systems, e.g. interactive ray tracing, statistical based computing including media processing, etc.   

Prior to that, Dr. Liang was the Media Solution Chief Architect for IBM’s* Telco and Media Solution Unit after spending years at IBM* Waston Research center and Development groups. Dr. Liang received his Ph.D. in mathematics fromCornell University, and holds 15 patents.