Breakthrough
Opportunities for China Software Industry
by
Dr. Qin (David) Zhang, Director
Sino-German Joint Software Institute, Beijing, China
6 - 9 PM, Thursday, October 2, 2003
Meeting Room at Kilopass, Inc., Sunnyvale,
CA 94085
http://www.scoba.org/jsi/usa.htm
The Joint Software Institute (JSI) is a newly funded R&D establishment with joint funding from PRC Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Beijing City Science Commission and German government and industry. The purpose of JSI is to conduct advanced scientific research and product development, explore advanced models of business operations and management, and promote international joint R&D programs in computer software for telecommunications, video broadcasting, education, enterprise platform software, manufacturing, intelligent control systems, consumer appliances and many more. JSI information is at www.scoba.org/jsi
Dr.
Qin (David) Zhang, the new appointed Director of JSI and Executive Secretary
of SCOBA, makes his first overseas trip to
build close ties with Silicon Valley community. He will visit San Jose area in
October 1-3. He is scheduled to give a keynote
speech at SCOBA meeting, meet local businesses, discuss with engineers and scientists to promote the
JSI business models, and recruit a number of research scientists and
engineers.
Outline of Dr. Zhang's Speech
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Introduction to JSI
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International flavor of JSI (North America, Europe, Asia and other countries)
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Research and Development Areas of JSI (telecom, architecture, intelligent systems, IC design, etc.)
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Business Operation Models of JSI
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Breakthrough opportunities for China software industry
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Cooperation opportunities with Silicon Valley community
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JSI as an incubator for overseas businesses in China
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Recruiting of 5 Chief Scientists in telecom, computers, software, intelligent systems, IC design and others
中德联合软件研究所JSI招聘启事
Job
Openings at JSI, Beijing, China
中德联合软件研究所(Joint Software Institute, JSI)是中国科技部和德国教研部两国政府联合资助的高科技科研机构。研究所致力于现代通信技术和软件技术开发与研究。本研究所将代表中德双方通信和软件领域的最高水平并承担中国和德国及欧盟共同体在此领域的重大科研项目。研究所临时网页：www.scoba.org/jsi
JSI的学科带头人和项目负责人由国内外知名通信及软件科学家组成，该研究团队包括博士、硕士和国内外有丰富科研经验的工程技术人员。JSI聘任的首席科学家应是国内外著名的优秀学者专家，负责一个领域的研发工作，享受与国外同类职务相似的工资待遇，配备优越的住房及工作条件，同时兼任北京航空大学教授，可每年不定期赴德国FOKUS等研究所从事合作研究工作，作为硕士和博士生导师，其优秀学生可被授予德国波兰工业大学（Technical University of Berlin）博士学位。
Agenda
|
Item |
Speaker |
|
Speech |
PRC Consulate Education officials |
|
Foreword |
Dr.
Alex Wu |
|
SCOBA
China Report |
Dr.
Daniel Zhu |
|
SCOBA
USA Report |
Dr.
Jack Peng |
|
Introduction
of Dr. Zhang |
Dr.
Daniel Zhu |
|
Keynote
Speech |
Dr.
David Zhang |
|
Questions
& Answers |
May
Zhang |
|
Reception
Dinner for David Zhang |
7:30-9:00
PM on Arques Ave near Fry's |
Location
Kilopass Technology, Inc.
(101 Lawrence South Exit, first right turn onto Duan Ave, turn right at next
light, 2nd bldg on right)
1031 East Duane Avenue Suite I, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, see map below.
Reservation
Required, Contact
(2) Dr.
Jack Peng, President of Kilopass, Inc., Phone: 408-739-5688, Fax:408-739-5651,
email: jzp@kilopass.com,
zezhongpeng@hotmail.com
Bio
of David Zhang
Dr. David Zhang is SCOBA Secretary General. He is a cofounder and board director of Cathay Roxus Information Technology, a Chinese Hi-Tech start-up company with major shareholders including Cisco, AOL-Time-Warner, business partnership with Philips, TI and valuation of $40 millions (second round financing value). Dr. Zhang was instrumental to form business partnership with Philips Semiconductor and driving force to bring in Cisco and AOL-Time-Warner in the second round financing. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Zhang led Roxus 80-person engineering team successfully developed middleware and world first real-time operating system for DSP based digital cable SBA (Software-defined Broadband Access) system, including software defined set-top box, DOCSIS cable modem communication physical and MAC software, CMTS, MUX, SNMP network management and CA system, real-time Linux OS, real-time software MPEG2 system and IP over DVB system. This system was deployed at the Chinese State Guest House in 2002 and marked the beginning of multimedia consumer software, middleware and OS field deployment. Dr. Zhang developed methodology and engineering principles for “Consumer Software” concept in the rapidly growing consumer software product market. In 2002, Dr. Zhang successfully managed IP (Internet Protocol) based video CPE (Consumer Premises Equipment) system development with partner Cisco Corporation. In three years, Dr. Zhang has led Roxus engineering team created more than 80 IPs (intellectual Properties) that are essential in consumer software, middleware, real-time OS and software defined digital cable system and IP based video system.
1998
to 2000, Dr. Zhang was a senior manager and technology consultant for the
department of Headend Engineering, Motorola Broadband Division, PA, USA with
40 staff engineers. Dr. Zhang led
the development of the next generation MPEG processing and modulation
processing products for the digital cable system.1996 to 1998, Dr. Zhang was a
manager for RF/Modem group and led a team of highly skilled digital signal
processing engineers, RF design
and ASIC circuit design engineers developed the first generation and the
second generation digital interactive CATV network, which includes QAM
modulator, QPSK satellite receiver, interactive cable modem and MPEG2
processing system, cable modem headend receiver, MPEG2 transcoder and
multipluxers. Dr. Zhang developed a complete system simulation and products
testing platform for QPSK satellite transmitter and receiver, 64/256QAM CATV,
MMDS and LMDS digital transmitter and receiver. The simulation software
includes carrier frequency and phase recovery, symbol clock recovery,
decision-feedback LMS and fast converging equalizer, trellis and convolution
coding, Viterbi soft decoding, Reed-Solomon
coding and decoding. Dr. Zhang
invented “A Robust Digital Adaptive Equalizer”, a fast converging
Stochastic equalizer which can tolerate high echo for equalizers with a large
number of taps. Dr. Zhang also invented “digital QAM Modulator Using Post
Filtering Carrier Recombination” and “Direct Digital Synthesis of FM
Signals”. Dr. Zhang developed a technology management program “end to end
system simulation” to efficiently manage today’s ever-demanding new
product development and time to market requirements.
1995
to 1996, Dr. Zhang was DSP Group Leader at Wavetek Corporation, Indiana, USA.
Dr. Zhang was in charge of digital signal processing algorithm design and
development, system design and simulation for the testing and measuring
equipment for analog and digital two-way telecommunications over cable
infrastructure. Dr. Zhang worked with the marketing department on new products
feasibility studies, system level new product specification and simulations
for international market and developed DSP system for Wavetek Stealth series
products. Dr. Zhang developed a digital carrier recovery algorithm, a digital
phase noise correction algorithm and a short pulse power measurement algorithm
using windowing method. Dr. Zhang developed a digital spectrum processing
method to detect and measure CTB impairments, which are 60 dB below the active
signal. Dr. Zhang has three patents related to the above inventions. Dr.
Zhang worked at Wavetek’s Beijing Office for a short time to develop the
CATV and digital communication market in China.
1990
to 1995, Dr. Zhang was a staff member and research engineer and project leader
at Image Processing Lab., the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver,
Canada. Dr. Zhang led a research team of digital design engineers, post
doctor researchers and graduate students to design a real-time digital signal
and image processing (DSP and DIP) system for real-time noise correction,
MPEG2 pre/post processing and automatic signal quality monitoring. Dr. Zhang
wrote proposals that successfully obtained research grants. Dr. Zhang
conducted marketing studies for the commercialization of his inventions (US
patent No. 5,329,311 and 5,221,967). Total grants received from Canadian
cable lab were $490,000 and NSERC (Nature Science and Engineer Research
Counsel) of Canada $129,000.
Dr. Zhang earned a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, 1986-1990. Dr. Zhang conducted research on electromagnetic wave diffraction with complex boundary conditions and obtained an uniform asymptotic solution to electromagnetic pulse diffraction by a curved surface with multiple discontinuities using Fock's function expansion, and an uniform asymptotic high frequency solution to acoustic pulse diffraction of a point source by step discontinuities in a hard plane boundary with Uniform Geometrical Theory (UTD) of diffraction. Dr. Zhang taught an undergraduate credit course “Antenna Design and Wave Propagation” at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Dr.
Zhang has 14 US patents.
Positions Available at JSI
Send resume to qinzhang@roxus.net and jobs@scoba.org