THE KNERON STORY
Established in October 20, 2015, Kneron is a leading provider of full stack edge AI solutions based in San Diego, California, United States. We are dedicated to the development of integrated edge AI hardware and software solutions for vehicle, security, and broader AIoT use cases. Our mission is to empower the proliferation of accessible, low-latency, and secure AI applications by creating networks of independently intelligent devices as enabled through full stack Kneron solutions.
Among Kneron's investors include Horizons Ventures, Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Qualcomm, Sequoia Capital, CDIB, Foxconn and Himax Technologies. To date, the company has raised 190M of funding.
OUR VISION
Our team works to enable safer and smarter living by accelerating the proliferation of decentralized, collaborative AI everywhere.
OUR PARTNERS
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Kneron provides cost-saving and flexible solutions to accelerate on-device edge AI technology adoption by simplifying device development and integration, and minimizing time-to-market. Let us know how we can help you.
OUR INVESTORS
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Our vision is to democratize AI by developing the Edge AI Net to enable AI everywhere. Let us know if you want to build this future with us.
Our Team
Albert Liu
Founder & CEO of Kneron
Albert Liu, Kneron’s founder and CEO. After graduating from the Taiwan National Cheng Kung University, he got the scholarships from Raytheon and the University of California to join the UC Berkeley/UCLA/UCSD research programs, and then got his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Before establishing Kneron in San Diego, California, United States in October 20, 2015, He has worked in R&D and management positions in Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics R&D centre, MStar and Wireless Information.
Albert has been invited to give lectures of computer vision technology and artificial intelligence at the University of California, as well as to be a technical reviewer for many internationally renowned academic journals. In addition, Albert owned more than 30 international patents in the areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision and image processing. He has published more than 70 papers in major international journals and received the IEEE Darlington Award and IEEE CTSoc Awards.
Albert has been invited to give lectures of computer vision technology and artificial intelligence at the University of California, as well as to be a technical reviewer for many internationally renowned academic journals. In addition, Albert owned more than 30 international patents in the areas of artificial intelligence, computer vision and image processing. He has published more than 70 papers in major international journals and received the IEEE Darlington Award and IEEE CTSoc Awards.
Frank Chang
Cofounder
Wintek Chair and Distinguished Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles, where he conducts research in areas of high-performance & mixed-signal system-on-chip designs for radio, radar, imaging, interconnect and spectrometer systems from RF to terahertz frequency ranges. He is also the Director of UCLA's High Speed Electronics Laboratory.
Formerly he was the President of National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2015-2019), and the Assistant Director & Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory at Rockwell International Science Center, Thousand Oaks, California (1983-1997).
He has received numerous awards and recognition, including:
Formerly he was the President of National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2015-2019), and the Assistant Director & Department Manager of the High Speed Electronics Laboratory at Rockwell International Science Center, Thousand Oaks, California (1983-1997).
He has received numerous awards and recognition, including:
- IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal
(2023) - IEEE Darlington Award
(2021) - JJ Thomson Medal for Electronics
(IET, 2017) - Fellow, US National Academy of Inventors (2015)
- Academician, Academia Sinica
(2012) - Member, US National Academy of Engineering (2008)
- David Sarnoff Award, (IEEE, 2006)
- Fellow, IEEE (1996)
Roger Liu
Chief Operating Officer
Roger obtained a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has 20+ years of semiconductor and AI industry experience. Roger was the former VP for R&D in Sentelic Corp, and also served as COO in Milkyway Silicon Technology.
Hsiang-Tsun Li
Chief Scientist
Hsiang-Tsun Li previously worked in Qualcomm for 17 years. He also served as the Vice President of Spreadtrum, held R&D and managerial positions at Lucent Technologies, and was a technical manager of Huawei and Vivo. In the fields of multimedia, image processing, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, he has obtained over 70 international patents and published many papers in major international journals.
Eddy Huang
Special Assistant to the CEO
Eddy has obtained his MBA at Tamkang University. He was the COO for Advanced Power Electronics and served as Vice President of Operations at Young Fast Optoelectronics.
Jimmy Lai
Chief Financial Officer
Jimmy has 30+ years of experience in financial management, capital market management as well as executing M&A activities from the corporate side. In his previous CFO appointments, Jimmy took two companies public in the USA, including Daqo New Energy (NYSE: DQ) in 2010 and China Online Education Group (NYSE: COE) in 2016. He was also instrumental in the IPO of SMIC (NYSE:SMI) in 2004. Jimmy is also a certified public accountant in the USA.
Team Voices
Steven
Software Engineer
At Kneron, I developed a fall detection algorithm by building a dataset from scratch and experimenting with cutting edge artificial intelligence models. The best part of it is to know that my work is making a real world impact by enabling safety.
Jane
Testing Engineer
In my opinion, teamwork is the key to a company’s success. Here at kneron, I am fortunate to work alongside incredible team members, alongside whom I constantly consider various angles and situations surrounding the use case. Truly, I believe that we can achieve the impossible!
Jenna, Ph.D.
Principal Engineer
Kneron holds a unique position in the field of artificial intelligence and provides an excellent opportunity to anyone interested to contribute to this fast-growing field. I'm proud to lead the AI algorithm team in enabling intelligent edge devices to serve more users.
Vincent
Senior Marketing Supervisor
Autonomous driving is the trickiest AI application; it involves complicated scenarios and requires the machine to outperform humans in decision-making. It is exciting to solve these problems for customers and enable safer and more efficient traffic experiences.