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Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Ambarella’s (NASDAQ: AMBA) industry leading AI inference systems on chips (SoCs) offer extremely efficient multi-modal AI capabilities for high-resolution radar processing, advanced image compression, inference and powerful deep neural network processing to enable intelligent sensors to extract valuable data from high-resolution input streams. Ambarella’s products are used in a wide variety of human and machine vision applications, including autonomous driving, robotics, datacenter inference, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), video security, drone, AR/VR, video conferencing and consumer camera applications.

Beavercreek, Oh, Us

*Acquired by Ambarella (NASDAQ: AMBA) in an all cash $400M transaction on Nov 2021* Oculii is creating a scalable AI software platform for imaging radars that enables exponentially higher resolution, longer range performance at significantly reduced cost with conventional RF hardware – increasing safety and reliability. The promise of autonomous vehicles depends on high-performance, all-weather, low-cost and scalable perception technology, and Oculii is bringing it to the world. Responsible for the following @Oculii: Fundraising - Raised $80M+ from top investors including General Motors, Samsung, HELLA, Panasonic, Conductive Ventures, Catapult Ventures, AimTop Ventures, Decent Capital, Massachusetts Avenue Capital, Taiwania Capital, Susquehanna Investment Group, R7 Partners, and others. Engineering – Built/led interdisciplinary team of 55 engineers across RF and digital hardware, advanced algorithm development, software/firmware, and manufacturing/ops.Product Management - Aligned long term high resolution imaging radar technology development strategy with short term and intermediate market opportunities. Business Development – Established strategic partnerships across multiple next generation frontier-tech compute platforms (self-driving cars, robotics, autonomous drones) using Oculii sensors for 4D tracking, mapping, and localization.Operations - Created and optimized global supply chain to take multiple products from prototype to production including PCB/PCBA manufacturing process & test development for NPI

Angel Investments:Anello Photonics, American Gene Technologies, Anduril, Beacons, Black Hammer, Bluprint, Bolt, Brixton, Cadre, Copper Spoon, Dahlia, Databricks, Eikonoklastes Therapeutics, Figma, Hazies, Horsefeather, Inductive, Kinetic Automation, Last Rites, Loom, Model Living, Morella, Motherly, Ohayo, Raise Robotics, Rippling, Rockwell, Samsara, Scale, Scarlet, Stack.AI, Taro San, Thriller, Trademark, Ubiquity6, Useful Sensors, Westwood Gold/Coast, Wilder, Wilkommen, Yutori, Zephyr, …Funds (LP / Venture Partner / Scout):Accel (LP), Bessemer (LP), Bridge (LP), Catapult (LP), Coalition (Venture Partner), Conductive (Advisor), CRV (LP), Essentia (Venture Partner), General Catalyst (LP), Gold House (Advisor), Infin8 (LP), IVP (LP), Khosla (LP), Kleiner Perkins (LP / Scout), Lightspeed (LP), Mantis (LP), Millenium (Venture Partner), R7 (Venture Partner), Spark (LP), StartX (Advisor)

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

For five decades, Kleiner Perkins has made history by partnering with some of the most ingenious and forward-thinking founders in technology and life sciences, investing $10+ billion in hundreds of companies including pioneers such as Amazon, Genentech, and Google. As a partner on the “HardTech” venture investing team, I’m focused on Artificial Intelligence, Sensors, Autonomous Systems, Space, Robotics, Accelerated Computing, Industrial IoT, 3D Printing, and Cloud Infrastructure. Sourced, lead, diligenced, executed, and/or sat as a board member on new KP17/KP18 investments in the following portfolio companies: + AEye (iDAR Perception) (NASDAQ: LIDR) + Alif (Full Stack Industrial IoT Solutions)+ Applied Intuition (Simulation Tools for AV/ADAS Deployments at Scale)+ Cesium Astro (Phased Arrays for LEO Constellations) + Engine ML (Deep Learning Infrastructure) - Acquired by Ripcord+ Femtosense (Neuromorphic AI Chips)+ LuxCreo (Light Enabled Additive Production)+ Make Composites (Automated Fiber Placement) - Acquired by Desktop Metal+ Mist Systems (AI Driven WLAN) - Acquired by Juniper+ Proxy (Digital Identity for the Physical World) - Acquired by OURA+ Shoof (Low Power/Scalable Track and Trace) + Spinlaunch (Kinetic Launcher for LEO Constellations) + Union Labs (HardTech Incubator)Board Observer in the following KP15/16 portfolio companies:+ Ambiq Micro (Sub-Threshold Ultra Low Power Processing)+ Amprius (Silicon Nanowire Batteries) - Public (NYSE: AMPX)+ Crossbar (ReRAM Memory) + DesktopMetal (3D Metal Printing) - Public (NYSE: DM) + DJI (World's Largest Drone Company)+ Movella [FKA mCube] (Digitizing Movement) - Public (NASDAQ: MVLA)+ Motiv (Next Generation Wearables) - Acquired by Proxy+ Pavilion Data (NVMeOF Accelerated Storage)+ Qumulo (Data Simplified at Exabyte Scale) + Relayr (Industrial IoT Middleware) - Acquired by MunichRE + Ripcord (Robotic Paper Digitization)+ Willo (Reinventing Oral Care)

San Francisco, California, Us

A private and secure identity signal for every person on the planet. Founded in 2016, our mission is to digitize your identity and make it universally accessible, secure and private. Our first product is a dead-simple way to access your office or building with just your phone, without even so much as pulling it out of your pocket.

Long Beach, California, Us

SpinLaunch is building a revolutionary kinetic space launch system which has the potential to revolutionize access to space. This responsive launch system allows for on-demand launches of small satellites in virtually any weather, at an order of magnitude lower cost than existing and new generation launch systems

Pleasanton, California, Us

AEye develops advanced vision hardware, software and algorithms that act as the eyes and visual cortex of autonomous vehicles. Since its demonstration of its solid state LiDAR scanner in 2013, AEye has pioneered breakthroughs in intelligent sensing. The company is based in Silicon Valley, and backed by world-renowned investors

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Desktop Metal is reinventing the way design and manufacturing teams produce metal parts - from prototyping through mass production. Our team is built around the disciplines of materials science, hardware and software engineering, and design. We have raised $438 million in equity funding with investment from technology leaders including Google, BMW, Ford Motor Company, Lowe’s, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The company was selected as one of the world’s 30 most promising Technology Pioneers by World Economic Forum, and was named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 50 Smartest Companies.

Shenzhen, Nanshan, Cn

DJI is the global leader in developing and manufacturing innovative drone and camera technology for commercial and recreational use. The company is dedicated to making aerial technology accessible, reliable and easy to use for creators, innovators and businesses around the world.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Co-founded and led product at Kumu Networks - a venture backed ($65M+ from NEA, Khosla Ventures, Third Point LLC, Verizon, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom) startup spun out of Stanford University to commercialize my research on Interference Cancellation and Full Duplex Wireless. Kumu has invented a cancellation technology that allows a radio to transmit and receive on the same frequency at the same time. The technology is widely applicable to every wireless radio market (LTE, WiFi, Whitespaces, etc.) and beyond the self-explanatory advantage of doubling spectral efficiency, has numerous benefits without requiring any Standards modifications. Responsible for the following @Kumu: Product Management -- Developed product roadmap strategy through iterative testing of product hypotheses with customers across a range of markets. Aligned short term applications of self-interference cancellation with strategic long-term company objectives of full duplex in every radio.IP Strategy - Steered growth of patent portfolio (over 30 US Patent Applications between '12-'16), reviewed and prioritized disclosures for proceeding to patent application and relevancy of new inventions to business strategy. Led technical patent discussions with client companies and investors. Business Development -- Established strategic partnerships with Tier-1 cellular operators around the globe, system OEMs, and chip manufacturers. Leading technology trial efforts to validate the self-interference cancellation and full duplex concept. Product Marketing -- Worked with industry analysts, public relation firms, and journalists to position the company as a leading 5G innovator. Performed competitor analysis, market research, and technical writing for marketing collateral.

Stanford, Ca, Us

*Completed MS/PhD in 3 years total, graduated at age 23* Researched the architecture of next generation artificial intelligence driven wireless networks, motivated in particular by the increasingly crowded and diverse nature of the wireless protocols around us. Married inter-disciplinary ideas from AI, information theory, circuit design, signal processing, and software systems, to provide fundamental wireless primitives which can be used to engineer high performance radio networks capable of coexisting in an increasingly dense and diverse spectral environment.Advisors: Sachin Katti (Primary), Philip Levis, Nick McKeown

San Francisco, California, Us

Reported directly to CEO - assessed external regulatory, market, and competitive risks associated with prospective domestic and international markets for expansion

Us

Worked with client executives on key strategic and operational issues. Involvement in all project responsibilities: financial modeling, client interviews, and creation & communication of deliverables.

Wright-Patterson Afb, Oh, Us

Fabricated and characterized RF MEMS switches to ascertain the impact of permanent thermal deformation.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering And Computer Science