Dr. Yennun Huang
President
Vee Telecom Multimedia, Taiwan

Dr. Huang  received his BS in EE from National Taiwan University  in 1982,  MS and PhD in Computer Science  from University of Maryland.  He Joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1989, working  on software tools and technologies to improve the reliability and security of  telecommunication services using Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) software. His  work on Software Implemented Fault Tolerance (SwiFT) tools was applied to more  than 25 systems in AT&T and was named one of the ten major technology  breakthroughs in Bell Laboratories in 1992.   He was the only Bell Labs representative to receive the Lucent  Commemorating Stock Certificate and a recipient of Computerworld Smithsonian  Award in 1998 on the SwiFT technology.  He  became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in Bell Labs in 1996. Yennun Huang was also a  Visiting Professor, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan in 1996.   He became a department head to start the  Dependable Computing Research Program in AT&T in 1999.  He left AT&T in 2001 and became the VP of  Engineering of PreCache Inc, a Sony-Funded startup company, to create  NetInjector, a multi-media content delivery platform. Dr. Huang was a Visiting  Research Fellow in National   Taiwan University  in 2004.  He returned to AT&T in late  2004 and became the Director for Dependable Distributed Computing and  Communication Research Department.   He became  an Executive Director in AT&T Labs in January 2007, responsible for  improving the dependability and quality of emerging telecommunication services  such as mobile TV, digital home and IPTV.    Dr. Huang has more than 17 US  patents awarded, 10 US  patents pending and more than 60 papers published in well-known journals and  conferences.   Dr. Huang returned to Taiwan to take  the Executive Vice President position of Institute for Information Industry, a  government funded R&D organization with more than 1800 employees,  to lead the R&D effort in 2007.  He was responsible for the Wimax technology  development in the M-Taiwan project.  In  October 2008,  Dr. Huang became the  General Manager/President of Vee Telecom Multimedia to build the most reliable  Wimax network and services in Taiwan.