Dr. Feng Yang is the head of People & Leadership Development who is responsible for the training and people development for Infineon Greater China region. Learning Roadmap: Lead to create systematic learning roadmap for the new Greater China region covering sales, marketing, engineering & production. Align with company strategy and organization development to design the learning roadmap.  Leadership Programs: Work with corporate to design and implement global leadership programs covering all levels of leaders. Design programs with action learning, social learning. Professional Trainings: Provide series of professional skill trainings to employees based on business goals and challenges. Design various formats to practice and track effectiveness.  E-learning platform: Set up e-learning platform and promote various learning formats, such as group learning, group sharing, e-workshop, etc. Combine e-learnings with interactions and design mini-class, which are innovative practices of digital learning. Learning Team-up: Build a cross location learning team to support all sites within Infineon Greater China. Grow the team capability and lead the team to optimize the learning process and learning experience.

 Training Scheme & OD: Create training scheme & OD solutions to align with dynamic business needs by culture shaping, talent development, workforce planning, process optimization, incentive mechanism, performance evaluation, etc. Become the trusted partners for business.  Innovation Framework: Architect Qualcomm China innovation framework by 3 pillars. Design and deliver several high value and high visibility events, such as Qualcomm China Testing Summit, Qualcomm Technology Day, Qualcomm China TechZone Conference, etc. which are highly recognized by senior leadership team. Technical Development: Track new technologies (focusing on Cloud, AI, Deep Learning, 5G, Self-driving, Robotics, VR/AR, etc.) and design and evaluate technical training curriculum for R&D, marketing, and sales functions.  Leadership Development: Design leadership development programs (such as Qualcomm Ladder Program, Leader Acceleration Program, etc.) according to Qualcomm business model and leadership competence. Follow up with learners on their new needs and feedback during the program periods. The programs help leaders to grow rapidly and practice and apply the skills to their managemental work. Professional Development: Design “New Qualcomm Star” program for high potential employees to improve their critical professional soft skills, which lasts 1 year and accelerate the growth of employees. The program is popular and scaled to multiple BUs.  Instructional Design: Design learning curriculum, such as Technical Writing, Technical Presentation, Innovation Matrix, Patents@Qualcomm and delivered to employees as internal instructor.

-> Leading the innovation program (Thinkubation) in Cisco R&D Center (China) to build innovative organization, promote innovation culture, drive patents and incubate new products/services. Due to Thinkubation, Cisco R&D Center (China) was awarded China Innovative IT Enterprise Award in Dec. 2013. o Chair of CRDC Patent Advisory Board; Leading over 20 experts to achieve patents from 1 in 2010 to 80 in 2013. The yearly patent submission rate is increased over 300%. o As the program manager, incubated multiple new product prototype together with the team including product managers, sales managers and R&D managers. o As the consultant to evaluate innovative projects in various BUs, and provided evaluation reports and charter reports. o Delivered over 20 speeches on innovations, patents in various BUs and different events. o Designed systematic solutions to enable innovative R&D center, which receives the recognition from executives based on the significant results. -> As the program manager, successfully led to design and organize many internal events and conferences, e.g. Chips@CRDC, Demo Expo, Innovation Day, etc. -> As technical lead to designed technical curriculum for internal use, e.g. Big Data Fundamental, Cloud Computing for Engineering, SDN Fundamental, Cisco onePK Service Set Overview, Cisco’s OpenFlow, Cisco onePK, etc. Working closely with Cisco SMEs to design technical curriculum. -> Internal instructor on innovation classes, i.e., Cisco’s Innovation, Driving Patents in Teams, Innovation Breakthrough, Patent Writing Skills, etc. -> Designed talent acceleration programs covering junior and senior engineers and front-line managers. The acceleration programs include training solutions in management leadership, professional soft skills and technical skills, which last 3 to 6 months. The acceleration programs provide integrated learning solutions to employees, which grow and motivate employees. Part of participants has been promoted.

Project: Radio resource management of inter-cell interference coordination in LTEResponsibility: Design radio resource management algorithms to improve the throughput and spectrum efficiency in LTE systems.Achievement: Proposed a prediction-based resource management algorithm in inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) scheme, which improves the cell edge throughput up to 14%. The proposed algorithm can optimize the resource allocation based on the prediction information which significantly protects the cell edge users and improves their throughput. Published 2 related patents.

Research topic: Multi-layer deployment of LTE-A systemsAchievement: Proposed PHY and MAC techniques to solve interference problem between macrocell and low power nodes to improve the overall system performance of LTE-A. Tracked the progress of IEEE 802.16m and 3GPP LTE-A H(e)NB. Published 4 related patents. 1) Interference mitigation: Proposed pre-coding algorithms and resource scheduling mechanisms at LTE-A H(e)NB to mitigate interference to macrocell. 2) Interference avoidance: Proposed adaptive power control algorithm to avoid harmful interference to macrocell. Research topic: Cognitive radio based wireless communication systemsAchievement: Focus on spectrum sensing and interference mitigation aspects. Tracked the progress of IEEE 802. 16h, 802.22, 802.16m, 3GPP LTE-A/RAN1,2. Published 15 related patents, 2 journal papers and 1 conference paper.1) Spectrum sensing: Proposed several cooperative spectrum sensing algorithms, including sub-band selection cooperative spectrum sensing. Proposed several cooperative sensing management mechanisms, such as confidence-based cooperative spectrum sensing management.2) Interference mitigation: Proposed distributed SDMA technique to mitigate mutual interference among co-located wireless systems.Research topic: IMT-advanced research and industrializationAchievement: Attended the system design of IEEE 802.16m, mainly focus on system architecture of 802.16m and submitted several contributions to 802.16m. Our team successfully applied the project of “Research and evaluation of 802.16m for IMT-advanced” funded by Ministry of Industry and information technology, China, in 2008.Research topic: Short range wireless communication systemsAchievement: Optimization design of PHY layer for wireless sensor networks, especially the design of low power transmission for WSN. Our team successfully applied the 863 national project on “Embedded chip design for wireless sensor networks” in 2007.

Project: Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) software implementation for HSDPA Access Point (HSAP) for UMTS networksResponsibility: Implemented the legal intercept feature for HSAP, which provides the interface between the third party operator and network operator for legal interception based on TCP/IP. - Designed and developed the system model by UML according to the high level requirements using Rational Rose and Telelogic TAU- Implemented the code by C++ under Linux followed Agile process- Designed unit test cases, regression test cases for functionality test and integration test.