Dr. Boon-Lock Yeo is a seasoned executive and technologist, with extensive leadership, management and product experiences that span US and Asia. He is a VP of Engineering at Google and currently with the Pixel team, and leads a global team responsible for Google Pixel Phones, Watch and Buds software development and testing. His team brings innovation in AI to create useful features for the users, and also to transform how they develop and test software. Previously, he led Engineering and Product at Alphabet Access / Google Fiber. He joined Google / Alphabet in 2007, and returned to Silicon Valley in 2014 after 11 years at Shanghai where he headed Google’s engineering & research efforts in Greater China & SE Asia, and co-led the Google China operations. During his tenure in Asia, he played a key role growing Google’s China presence, as well as the R&D efforts in search and infrastructure for China and Asia.

Before he joined Google, for 4 years, he led R&D efforts for Intel in China, served as the General Manager for Intel Asia-Pacific R&D Ltd. and oversaw the rapid expansion of Intel R&D efforts in Shanghai. He received two Intel Achievement Awards – the highest Intel award recognizing outstanding accomplishments with significant business impacts. Prior to his China adventures, he was an entrepreneur at Silicon Valley and had founded a data storage technology startup. He previously held R&D positions at Intel Labs, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, and AT&T Bell Labs. He received his Ph.D. in EE from Princeton University and BSEE from Purdue University. He is internationally recognized for his pioneering research work in data compression and compressed data processing. He received an IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award, has published over 50 technical papers and holds 55 US patents. He had also contributed to fundamental technologies in wavelet-based lossless compression which were part of the JPEG2000 standards. He is an IEEE Fellow.

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