Dr. William W.-Y. Liang received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1998. After two years of compulsory military service, Dr. Liang worked for Avant! Corporation as an EDA software engineer during 2000. From 2001 to 2004, he joined an embedded system design company, WISCORE Inc., and experienced the positions of a R&D staff engineer, the department manager, and the vice president. Since 2005, Dr. Liang transferred to National Taipei University of Technology as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering. During these years, he published 80+ papers and cumulatively gave nearly 210+ professional talks. In 2013, he joined the innovation Digital System Business Group (iDSBG) of the Foxconn Technology Group and then served as a Senior Director. Dr. Liang was assigned to be in charge of the development of the next-generation HTML5-based operation system (Firefox OS). He also led some of the optimization tasks for the Android products. During Q3 2014, the first version of the Firefox OS table was released and shipped. After that, Dr. Liang worked as a professional consultant and joined some start-up teams. In 2016, Dr. Liang joined the cloud storage-based start-up company HopeBay Technology and HB Mobile to develop a new generate phone, Tera phone, targeting unlimited storage space using cloud technology. After that he joined another start-up company, NextDrive Inc., in 2017 (to present) to develop the energy-based IoT systems, which covers from a newly evolved operating system - NextDrive OS, a self-created cloud infrastructure, and the service oriented user Apps -- Ecogenie. During the middle of 2019, he joined ADLINK for the development of Edge Computing and AIoT platforms-related technologies and also the Zenoh open source project with the Zettascale team, until June of 2023. After that, Dr. Liang transitioned to work on a distributed data mesh platform for a startup company, Brobridge. Dr. Liang was a member of ACM, IEEE CS, and IICM. Since 2011, he has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World. Dr. Liang's research interests include OS, computer architecture, embedded systems, parallel and distributed systems, and low-power software design. (For a detailed resume, please refer to https://sites.google.com/view/wyliang)
Listed skills include Embedded Linux/Uclinux Kernel And Driver Development, Software/Hardware Integration, Android System Architecture And Implementation, Unix/Linux System Programming, and 6 others.