William Liang

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Taipei City, Taipei City, Taiwan, United States
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About William Liang

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)

William Liang's Current Company Details
BROBRIDGE Co., Ltd

Brobridge Co., Ltd

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William Liang Work Experience Details
  • Brobridge Co., Ltd
    Senior Consultant
    Brobridge Co., Ltd Sep 2023 - Present
    Consultant of the CEOGuide the Product Manager and engineers in creating the product, codenamed Graviton, for the new generation of the Gravity 2.0 Data Mesh platform.Introduce the formal Scrum Agile Process for product development.Lead and guide the engagement with academic organizations, specifically the National Taipei University of Technology, to enrich the company's capabilities in software QA and CI/CD and Deep Learning, such as RAG for Gravity.About Gravity 2.0: it is a microservice platform converting traditional data (such as databases) into the concept of Data Products, which can then be utilized and added values through concepts like Data Catalog or Data Market. Gravity provides the capability of DB CDC (Change Data Capture) and efficient data pipelines based on NATS. The platform is built on top of (but not limited to) the powerful and flexible Kubernetes container environment and VMs. Gravity also provides a visual programming environment, namely Atomic, based on NodeRed, for the data owners and users to easily create data flows (i.e. data pipelines) as a combination of microservices for the application logic by way of No-Code or Low-Code.
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  • 凌華科技
    Technical Director
    凌華科技 May 2019 - Jun 2023
    Taoyuan City , Taiwan (R.O.C.), Tw
    1. Affiliations1.1 Technical Director and Chief Architect of Global Design Engineering in ADLINK HQ, 2019.05~2021.101.2 Technical Director, ATO (Advanced Technology Office, a.k.a ZettaScale Technology Inc.), 2021.11~2023.6.30Note: ATO has spun off as ZettaScale Technology (https://www.zettascale.tech/), starting from 2021.11. I'm working on the newly developed edge computing technology called "Zenoh", which provides a Internet-scale high performance fully-decentralized architecture for industry and autonomous systems such as robots and autonomous driving. (Refer to: https://zenoh.io/ and https://www.slideshare.net/williamwyliang/edge-computing-for-the-industry for a brief introduction.)2.Research, publication, and academic collaboration mainly with National Taiwan University, including Edge Computing, AI Platforms, and performance study for Zenoh, Rust, DDS, ROS 2, and Autoware, etc. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/wyliang/#h.j094qgtxwabk3. Ecosystem and open source communities engagement and promotion for the ADLINK Edge OS, composed of several open source Edge Computing projects, including Eclipse Cyclone DDS, ROS 2, Eclipse Zenoh, Eclipse Fog05 and Autoware 4. Product/project architecture design5. New technology and application development6. Implementation expertise enhancement7. R&D non-functional skills strengthening, especially in problem solving process and skills8. Efficient and effective engineering process improvement, including requirement engineering and system engineering
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  • Nextdrive Co.
    Cto
    Nextdrive Co. Feb 2017 - May 2019
    Taipei, Taipei, Tw
    1. Lead 6 teams (OS, Cloud, App, AE, EE, QA) of the scale of nearly 40 members to design and develop the IoT specific operating system, called ND-OS, for NextDrive's new generation energy gateway code-named Cube-J, with the following features:a. Embedded Linux based system, b. Build-in rule engine and event-driven architecture with OTA and remote device management capability, c. In-house design micro-service based back-end architecture in public cloud, ready for ML/DL data analysis features,d. Friendly designed user Apps on Android and iOS,e. Capable of connecting to a smart meter using a new industrial standard for smart utilities called WiSUN on sub-G band with the Echonet Lite application layer protocol, and optionally using PLC with IEC62056 protocol,f. Capable of connecting to other IoT sensors and controllers by way of BT or WiFi with Echonet Lite, such as g-sensor, thermo-sensor, smart lock, air conditioner control, lighting, energy storage, heater, etc.g. With tiny form-factor (4.7cm cubic size), with quad-core ARM processor, 1GB memory, 16GB eMMC, and build-in WiSUN HAN/FAN module, WiFi/BT module and internal antenna, etc.h. Others: also supports automated demand response, engaged with DLT (a.k.a. block-chain tech.) networks, enabled with the web-based NodeJS technology for extended application execution and deployment, etc.2. Extended applications of CubeJ includes: smart meter and environment monitoring, home energy management system (HEMS) and automation, different type of smart utility network integration, and remote management for other type business. 3. Engage and collaborate with quite a lot partners and customers in Taiwan and Japan, including many companies, governmental technical organization, and universities in either technical or business cooperation.* Here is an introduction of nextDrive's products and services, entitled "Internet of Engergy": https://www.slideshare.net/williamwyliang/internet-of-energy-251211837.)
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  • Hope Bay Mobile (Hope Bay Technologies)
    Cto
    Hope Bay Mobile (Hope Bay Technologies) Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
    1. Work with the development team (including 4 scrum teams of around 40 members) to create a new cloud-based smart phone called Tera, which provides limitless storage space to the users.2. Develop and design the technology and architecture of the Tera phone and the cloud back-end, called "Cloud Memory Extension (CME)" technology - a cache hierarchy technology to integrate the cloud storage (mainly with HopeBay Ark Flex-U) into local Linux file system in the phone, with fault handling mechanisms on offline situations. 3. Define the user scenario and user stories of the Tera phone, including potential business logic.Apply for the government MOEA A+ Project for the CME technology development.* Here is an introduction about CME: https://www.slideshare.net/williamwyliang/an-integration-trend-of-terminal-devices-iot-and-cloud-for-highspeed-mobile-networks.
  • Professional Consultant
    Consultant And Open Source Project Contributor
    Professional Consultant Oct 2014 - Mar 2016
    1. Serve as an open source consultant for an SoC vendor, helping adopt formalized open source methodologies.2. Participate in a newly founded Linux-based open source community (under preparation), as a contributor and a developer.3. Work with several start-up companies and projects to provide helps from technical and direction aspects, including cloud virtual platform, wearable devices, IoT-related devices, and web-based systems.4. Provide professional training for some organizations or companies. Topics include Android framework architecture, Linux kernel drivers, MCU-based RTOS systems for IoT, and the development trends of the industry, etc.Selected talks related to open source and smart devices (IoT) during this period:* https://bit.ly/3vi7MLM (Slideshare), An Introduction to the Android Framework -- a core architecture view from apps to the kernel, 2016/03/29* https://bit.ly/2zm3A3q (Slideshare), An Introduction to the Linux Kernel -- with Device Drivers, 2016/03/22* https://bit.ly/354KzlD (Slideshare), Operating Systems and Software Design Principles for Hardware Components, 2015/12/02* https://bit.ly/3p9Xb1F (Slideshare), The Open Source Strategy for the Versatile IoT and Smart Applications Era, 2015/10/07* https://bit.ly/3hasN2Y (Slideshare), The Development Trend of Smart Applications and Smart Devices, 2015/09/17* https://bit.ly/3BX10g9 (Slideshare), Android Device Driver Structure Introduction, 2015/08/14.* https://bit.ly/3If9m4Y (Slideshare), A Development Trend of Smart Applications and IoT, 2015/05/29.* https://bit.ly/3IlaaW8 (Slideshare), Open Source Software and Hardware Integration Trend for Embedded Smart Applications, 2015/03/24* https://bit.ly/3BMR6O2 (Google Drive), Integration Trend of Smart Connected Devices and Web/Cloud Computing, 2014/12/10
  • Foxconn
    Senior Director, Operating System Team, System Software Development Division, Idsbg
    Foxconn Jan 2013 - Sep 2014
    Us
    Senior Director (2013.08-2014.09), Technical Consultant (2013.01-07)In charge of the development of the new generation operating system / Firefox OS, and co-development with SoC vendors to define the chip architecture. Major Achievements:1. Co-worked with Mozilla to finish the first prototype of Firefox OS Tablet in Computex 2013.2. Co-worked with Mozilla to finish the device production of Firefox OS Tablet and the open source release for the Firefox OS Contribution Program announced in CES 2014. 3. Enabled Firefox OS on a Set-top Box platform. 4. Built the Firefox OS core R&D team in Foxconn and set up the development process.5. Improved the graphics and UI performance of some mid-range Android product* A news report for the Firefox OS project: https://www.digitimes.com.tw/iot/article.asp?cat=130&id=0000367375_zqo249x88ah8qt431lrzm
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  • National Taipei University Of Technology
    Assistant Professor, Department Of Computer Science And Information Engineering
    National Taipei University Of Technology Feb 2005 - Jul 2012
    台北市, Tw
    Research and Teaching in Operating Systems, Embedded Systems, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Computer Architectures, Low Power Software Design, etc.Provided consulting, and training services for the industry, especially in Android, Linux Kernel, ARM architecture, and Embedded Systems.Major achievements: gave 60+ speeches in universities or academic organizations; provided 80+ speeches or professional training programs for the industry; published 70+ research papers, technical reports, theses, and books; executed 45+ research or industry projects; advised more than 20 master and Ph.D. students; received numerous honors and recognition from multiple areas.* For a detailed list of the achievements, please refer to the Publication section below, or visit my webpage at https://sites.google.com/view/wyliang
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  • Wiscore Inc.
    Vice President, R&D
    Wiscore Inc. Sep 2001 - Mar 2004
    Vice President, R&D (2002.10 ~ 2004.03), Manager, R&D Dept. (2002.04 ~ 2002.10), Staff Engineer, R&D Dept. (2001.09 ~ 2002.03)Provided embedded systems design service and solutions, mainly using embedded Linux and ARM/MIPS SoC’s. Products include the embedded system development environment, home gateway equipments, GPS/GPRS telematic systems for fleet management, network surveillance systems, PDA, etc.
  • Avant! Corp. (Merged By Synopsis.)
    Eda Software Engineer, R&D Dept.
    Avant! Corp. (Merged By Synopsis.) Apr 2000 - Sep 2001
    Developed physical verification EDA tools, particularly on the Layout-versus-Schematic (LVS) phase. Also join the work of parallelizing the tool by multithread techniques over multiprocessor systems.
  • Department Of Defense
    Communication Officer
    Department Of Defense Jul 1998 - Mar 2000
    Compulsory Military Service
  • Academia Sinica
    Post-Doctor Research, Institute Of Physics
    Academia Sinica May 1998 - Jun 1998
    Set up the first cluster computing environment for the research on the protein structure analysis.
  • Tamkang University
    Part-Time Assistant Professor, Department Of Information Management
    Tamkang University Sep 1997 - Jun 1998
    Part-time Assistant Professor (1998.02-1998.06), Part-time LecturerTeaching (1997.09-1998.01)

William Liang Skills

Embedded Linux/uclinux Kernel And Driver Development Software/hardware Integration Android System Architecture And Implementation Unix/linux System Programming Firefox Os System Architecture Arm Architecture And Instruction Sets Soc And Computer Architecture Design Low Power Software Design And Dvfs Iot And Mcu Rtos Design Thread Programming

William Liang Education Details

  • National Taiwan University
    National Taiwan University
    Department Of Computer Science And Information Engineering
  • National Tsing Hua University
    National Tsing Hua University
    Computer Science
  • Tatung Institute Of Technology
    Tatung Institute Of Technology
    Computer Science And Engineering

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William Liang attended National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, Tatung Institute Of Technology.

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